Case Name: BENNET against BOZORTH
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 544
Docket Number: 
Parties: BENNET against BOZORTH.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 132–133

Head Matter:
BENNET against BOZORTH.
ON CERTIORARI.
Delivering execution to constable, does not of itself make him liable for the debt.
The action below was brought on the following state of demand:
The cause was tried by the justice, who rendered a judgment for the plaintiff below, for $57.88, with costs.
It was now contended on the part of the plaintiff in error, that the state of demand did not set out a lawful cause of action.
Nugent, att’y for plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Merely putting into the hands [409] of a constable an execution, does not of itself make the constable liable for the debt; something more must be set out in the state of demand, to maintain an action.
Judgment reversed.