Case Name: WITHAM v. PRAY
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1823-04
Citations: 2 Me. 198
Docket Number: 
Parties: WITHAM v. PRAY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 198–198

Head Matter:
WITHAM v. PRAY.
The Stat. 1822, ch. 193. authorizing- the filing of exceptions in a summary-manner to any decision of the Court of Common Pleas, does not apply to. causes brought there by appeal from the judgment of justices of the peace.
J. Holmes, for the appellant.
Wallingford and Butler, for the appellee.

Opinion:
An appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace having been made to the Court of Common Pleas, that Court, on opening the case, being of opinion that it could not be supported, ordered the plaintiff to become nonsuit; to which opinion he filed exceptions in a summary manner and brought the case here by appeal, pursuant to Stat. 1822, ch. 193. ,
But the Court dismissed the cause from the docket, observing that the statute authorized such summary proceedings only in cases originally commenced in the Court of Common Pleas. In cases brought there by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, the remedy for the correction of errors, is by writ of error at common law.