Case Name: STEELMAN against NIXON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-02
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 928
Docket Number: 
Parties: STEELMAN against NIXON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 485–486

Head Matter:
STEELMAN against NIXON.
The action below was brought by Nixon against Steelman, as constable. The state of demand was headed in this way:
Jonathan Steelman, constable, in debt, to Phebe Dickson, in trover. To wrongfully selling [f] my property, as follows. To one feather bed, £12, and other articles charged in the same way, amounting in all, to £30 7s 3d.
The jury found a verdict for $21.10. The insufficiency of the state of demand, was alleged as error.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The state of demand is too loose. The defendant below is neither charged with taking the goods, nor converting them to his own use.
Judgment reversed.