Case Name: GILL against HACKNEY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-02
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 921
Docket Number: 
Parties: GILL against HACKNEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 479–479

Head Matter:
GILL against HACKNEY.
OH CERTIOBABI.
It appeared from the record in this cause, and the answer of the justice, to a rule of this court, served on him, that the justice in rendering judgment against the defendant, had included the defendant’s costs; that after the judgment was rendered, the defendant below, procured a person to confess a judgment for the whole debt and costs, by way of security; some time after this was done, the justice discovered the error [*] in [671] the judgment in respect to costs, and then altered his judgment, correcting the error in regard to costs.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This would have been error, but it is cured by the late act respecting costs in justices' courts. It is the original judgment that is before us, and not the one confessed by way of security.
Judgment affirmed.