Case Name: BERRY and DEY against MEAD
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-11
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 612
Docket Number: 
Parties: BERRY and DEY against MEAD.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 197–197

Head Matter:
BERRY and DEY against MEAD.
OH CERTIORARI.
The summons in this case, was for $28.42. There had been an adjournment below; and on the day to which the cause was adjourned, the justice made the following entry on his docket:
“ The defendant did not appear; the plaintiff [457] produced in evidence, a former execution against the defendant; whereupon I gave judgment against the defendant in favor of the plaintiff, for the above sum, and sixty-three cents costs.”

Opinion:
By the Court.
If this was an action of debt, brought on a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, against the defendant, the judgment itself, or a regular certified copy thereof, should have been produced on the trial; the execution was not sufficient. But it does not appear in whose favor the execution was; nor in what way the defendant was liable to the plaintiff below. There is not sufficient on this record to sustain an action.
Judgment reversed.