Case Name: The People, ex rel. Newell and others, vs. Montgomery Common Pleas
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1837-01
Citations: 18 Wend. 341
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People, ex rel. Newell and others, vs. Montgomery Common Pleas.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 341–341

Head Matter:
The People, ex rel. Newell and others, vs. Montgomery Common Pleas.
An appeal cannot be allowed by the first judge of a county when absent from the county for which he was appointed.

Opinion:
Motion for mandamus. The common pleas of Montgomery quashed an appeal from a justice's judgment on the ground that the appeal was allowed by the first judge of the county, when absent from the county, to wit, in Albany. The relator asked for a mandamus to vacate the rule quashing the appeal. The court denied the mandamus, saying the judge had no jurisdiction to allow the appeal; it was a judicial act which could properly be performed only in the county for which he was appointed.