Case Name: CATO v. GILL, and McINTOSH v. THE SAME
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1790-04
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 13
Docket Number: 
Parties: CATO v. GILL, and McINTOSH v. THE SAME.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 13–13

Head Matter:
CATO v. GILL, and McINTOSH v. THE SAME.
The action on the timber act for the penalty must be debt, and must so appear on the record of the justice.

Opinion:
These cases were brought up by certiorari from before Justice Kennard, of Gloucester county, and the judgments were in both actions reversed, because they were brought to recover the penalties prescribed by the act to prevent the waste of timber, &c., and it did not appear they were actions of debt. It was said to have been settled in three several cases of Hoagland v. Stephens and others, in September Term, 1789; that the action must be debt, and appear to be so on the record of the justice.
Judgments reversed.
Note. — See Crane's Case, post S. P.