Case Name: William Mansfield, Plaintiff in Error, versus Hannah Doughty
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1807-11
Citations: 2 Tyng 398
Docket Number: 
Parties: William Mansfield, Plaintiff in Error, versus Hannah Doughty.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 349–350

Head Matter:
William Mansfield, Plaintiff in Error, versus Hannah Doughty.
Upon a submission to referees before a justice of the peace, pursuant to the statute of 1786, c. 21, the demand annexed to the submission must be sub scribed by the person making it
This was a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, rendered upon the report of certain referees, made under a submission before a justice of the peace, pursuant to statute 1786, c. 21.

Opinion:
Sundry errors were assigned, the first of which was that the demand annexed to the original submission was not subscribed by the person making it. And for this the Court reversed the judg ment, observing that this, being a special jurisdiction, m derogation of the common law, must be strictly pursued .
Prescott, for the plaintiff in error.
Putnam, for the defendant in error.
[Vide Bullard vs. Coolidge, ante, 324.—Ed.]