Case Name: CRANE against CRANE
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1808-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 412
Docket Number: 
Parties: CRANE against CRANE.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 7–7

Head Matter:
CRANE against CRANE.
OH CERTIORARI.
The justice makes the following entry in his docket on the return of the summons, to wit: “ The plaintiff appeared and filed his account, defendant did [314] not appeal’, and I gave judgment for the plaintiff.” It was alleged for error, that there was a judgment without trial, apparent on the face of the record; that it also appeared by the record that the plaintiff did not file any state of demand, but that the judgment was rendered on a note which, according to the justice’s return, was mislaid.

Opinion:
The Coukt
being of opinion that here was a judgment without a trial, and that no legal state of demand was delivered the justice,
Reversed the judgment.