Case Name: DEN EX DEM. &c. v. FEN, MATLACK ET AL. TENANTS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1839-11
Citations: 17 N.J.L. 354
Docket Number: 
Parties: DEN EX DEM. &c. v. FEN, MATLACK ET AL. TENANTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 354–354

Head Matter:
DEN EX DEM. &c. v. FEN, MATLACK ET AL. TENANTS.
Ejectment. Motion to stay proceedings till former suit is decided. Matter of Practice.
Mr. Browning in behalf of defendants,
upon the affidavit of Matlack, which he offered to read, moved for a rule to stay proceedings in this action, until an action between the same parties and for the same premises now pending in the court of appeals upon a writ of error to this court shall be determined. He cited, Tilling. Adams on Ejectment, 320. (vide Rugles’ Adams on Ejectment, 323.) Thrustout v. Troublesome, 2 Str. 1099. Doe. v. Law, Bl. R. 1158. Swing v. The Inhabitants &c. 5 Halsted’s R. 58. 4 Ib. 86, 96.
Mr. Jeffers and Mr. Williamson
objected to want of notice of taking affidavits; and of the motion, and that the affidavit was not entitled, and could not therefore' be read in the cause. 1 Comyns 81. Johns. Dig.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This being a special motion, the plaintiff was entitled to two days notice: nor can we upon an vx-parte affidavit make an absolute rule in a case like this. Take c rule on the plaintiff to show causo on the first day of next terna, why proceedings in this action should not be stayed, until the cause pending in. the court of appeals shall be determined; and that all proceedings in this action be stayed in the mean time.