Case Name: STEELMAN against STEWART
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1807-11
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 317
Docket Number: 
Parties: STEELMAN against STEWART.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 299–299

Head Matter:
STEELMAN against STEWART.
ON OBRTIOHAIir.
Proceedings void. Yerbal report of referees, no judgment.
The following transcript of his docket was sent up by [*] the justice on the return of the writ, and constitutes the whole of the record below:—
Crane, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court.
— The report of the referees ought to have been in writing, and entered at large on the justice's docket. The proceeding resembles as much a trial by a jury of three men as a reference. These short notes of proceedings in justice's courts are very uncertain and unsatisfactory. Besides, here is no judgment entered. The proceedings must be declared void.