Case Name: CHATTIN against PAYDAY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1806-11
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 138
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] CHATTIN against PAYDAY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 129–129

Head Matter:
[*] CHATTIN against PAYDAY.
OH CEBTIOBABI.
Action on simple contract, for the payment of money, to be debt.
This action below was an action on the case. The state of demand was for a simple contract, to wit: board, nursing, clothing, &c., of the child of the defendant below. The act of Assembly, directing that actions arising on simple contract, shall be brought as action of debt and not otherwise, was relied on for the reversal of the judgment below.

Opinion:
By the Court.
— We cannot get over it; the judgment must be reversed.
Cited in Little v. Gibbs, 1 South. 211; Sayres v. Inhab. of Springfield, 3 Halst. 166.