Case Name: WARD against EASTLACK
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1808-11
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 465
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] WARD against EASTLACK.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 56–57

Head Matter:
[*] WARD against EASTLACK.
ON CERTIORARI.
The action below was founded on the following state of demand:
The first meeting of the parties before the justice, the cause was adjourned, and on the day of adjournment the justice made the following entry on the record:
1808, Jan. 2. Plaintiff met, defendant not appearing; judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for ninety-four dollars and twenty-six cents debt, and sixty-three cents costs, in the absence of the defendant, after examining the account of the plaintiff, and reference had to a former action in my docket.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Why the defendant below should be answerable for an execution in favor of the plaintiff, against a third person, does not appear in the state of demand; and that not appearing, the state of demand does not contain a legal cause of action upon which a judgment can be sustained.
Judgment reversed.
Cited in Sykes v. Stokes, 1 South. 215.