Case Name: -- v. GASTON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1791-04
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 62
Docket Number: 
Parties: [52] -- v. GASTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 62–62

Head Matter:
[52] -- v. GASTON.
An action to recover the penalty for trading with slaves should be qui tam on the act, and the judgment not vary from the penalty.
Certiorari to Justice Hunt.
This was an action of debt, to recover the penalty for trading with Gaston’s negro. The justice gave judgment for £4 Is. (id., in favor of Gaston.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Reverse the judgment. The action should have been qui tam on the act, and the judgment only for the penalty of 20s., to the use of the poor, &c.
Act for regulating slaves, Anno 1713-14.