Case Name: CARY against FORSYTH
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1808-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 432
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] CARY against FORSYTH.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 25–25

Head Matter:
[*] CARY against FORSYTH.
ON CEKTIOEAEI.
Reversal, because trial by jury was refused.
On a demand made on the defendant below for $37.50, the defendant, after appearance of the parties before the justice, demanded a jury, whidh the justice did not grant, but tried the cause himself, and rendered judgment for the plaintiff below for $32 debt, with costs; there was an appeal to the common pleas, on the ground of no jury having passed on the cause below; the common pleas rendered judgment for the plaintiff before the justice.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The plaintiff in this court, who was the defendant below, had by law a right to have his cause tried by a jury; he has been unlawfully deprived of that right: therefore, judgment must be
Reversed.