Case Name: CHARLES P. DUNKEL ET AL. v. THE CRAMER HILL FERRY COMPANY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1897-11
Citations: 61 N.J.L. 208
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHARLES P. DUNKEL ET AL. v. THE CRAMER HILL FERRY COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 208–209

Head Matter:
CHARLES P. DUNKEL ET AL. v. THE CRAMER HILL FERRY COMPANY.
1. An application to have a Writ of inquiry executed before a justice of this court, is at the discretion of the court and will only be granted when the case is very special, as where the law is mixed with the fact, or .where the inquiry appears to be of too much consequence for the sheriff to undertake.
2. That large damages are claimedis insufficient.
On application to have a writ of inquiry executed before a justice of this court.
Argued at November Term, 1897, before Justices Van Syckel, Dixon and Collins.
For the motion, Jonas S. Miller.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Such an application is at the discretion of the court and will only be granted when the case is very special, as where the law is mixed with the fact, or where the inquiry appears to] be of too much consequence for the sheriff to undertake. That large damages are claimed is not sufficient. White v. Hunt, 1 Halst. 330.
An example of the appropriate exercise of this discretionary. power is Jersey City v. Chase, 1 Vroom 233.
The affidavit submitted to us shows only the ordinary case of a judgment by default in an action for personal injury resulting from defendant's negligence.
The application is denied.