Case Name: Candee against Goodspeed
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1804-11
Citations: 2 Cai. 245
Docket Number: 
Parties: Candee against Goodspeed.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 245–245

Head Matter:
Candee against Goodspeed.
If a non-resident plaintiff sue by warrant before a justice, and will not consent to an adjournment for more than three days, in no case can the justice adjourn over that. time.
In Error, on certiorari, from a justice’s court.
The plaintiff was a non-resident, and the suit commenced by warrant.
The defendant, on account of the inevitable absence Of a- material witness, and after dud diligence used to procuro him, requested an adjournment for more than three days, offering the same security as is required by the 8th section of the ten pound act. The plaintiff refusing to consent tp the delay, the ^justice, of his own authority, adjourned over. This was alleged for error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The seventh section is too positive and peremptory to be got over. The justice had not any power to adjourn beyond the three days.
Judgment reversed.