Case Name: Jacob Fox v. Moses Lambson
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1826-09
Citations: 8 N.J.L. 451
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jacob Fox v. Moses Lambson.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 451–452

Head Matter:
Jacob Fox v. Moses Lambson.
Where a plaintiff neglects to carry down his cause for trial at the next ■Circuit after a now trial has been awarded, judgment as in case of non-suit may be rendered against him, provided there is sufficient time between the awarding of the new trial and the Circuit to give the requisite notice of trial.
In the term of May last, the verdict which had been rendered for the defendant, was set aside and a new trial awarded. {See Ante page 275.)
Jeffers, on behalf of the defendant,
now moved for judgment as in case of nonsuit against the plaintiff, because he had not carried the cause down for trial at the last Salem Circuit, which was held on the second Tuesday of June last.
Dayton, for plaintiff,
opposed the motion. He said that there was not time between the delivery of the opinion of the court at the last term awarding the new trial, and the circuit, to notice the cause and prepare for trial, without he had immediately upon the delivery of the opinion of the court, written to his client and given notice of trial. The opinion of this court was delivered on the eleventh day of May, and the Salem circuit commenced on the thirteenth day of' June, so that to give twenty days’ notice (exclusive of Sundays) would have left him but one week to transact-his business at the Supreme Court, return home, communicate with his client and give notice of trial—this was too short a time. But in strictness, the time allowed for giving' notice of trial ought to be computed from the day when the Supreme Court adjourned, for every lawyer was to be presumed attending that court. The Supreme Court adjourned on the twenty-second day of May, and between that time and the thirteenth of June, there were not twenty days exclusive of Sundays.

Opinion:
Justices Rossell and Ford (the Chief Justice being absent from indisposition) ordered judgment as in case of non-suit.