Case Name: Benjamin Burrough against David Vanderveer
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1820-02
Citations: 5 N.J.L. 809
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Benjamin Burrough against David Vanderveer.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 931–932

Head Matter:
*Benjamin Burrough against David Vanderveer.
ON CERTIORARI.
Jurisdiction of Justice.
VANDERVEER, as assignee of Thomas Bispham, brought an action of covenant, upon the warranty, in a deed for a lot of land, and assigned as breach, that the defendant had not good title when he made the deed. At the trial, several deeds were given in evidence, and motion for a nonsuit made. Judgment for plaintiff, for $71.02.
A reversal was moved by White, for plaintiff.
Blackwell vs. Leslie, 1 South. 112. Pickle vs. Covenhoven, 1 South. 319. Vantyl vs. Marsh, ante 507. Westbrook vs. Eager, 1 Har. 84. Winter vs. Peterson, 4 Zab. 524.

Opinion:
Court.
The justice had no jurisdiction, by the express provisions of the statute. The title to the land, was the question in issue.
Judgment reversed. °