Case Name: Daniel Lake and Reuben Vankirk against Benjamin Merrill
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1829-02
Citations: 10 N.J.L. 341
Docket Number: 
Parties: Daniel Lake and Reuben Vankirk against Benjamin Merrill.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 341–342

Head Matter:
Daniel Lake and Reuben Vankirk against Benjamin Merrill.
CERTIORARI.
If judgment is rendered for a sum exceeding the amount mentioned in the state of demand, the judgment will be reversed.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The sum demanded by the plaintiff in the state of demand filed before the justice is $37.92, and judgment was rendered on the appeal in his favor for a larger sum $40.04 debt besides costs. On this ground the judgment was reversed in Hawk v. Anderson, 4 Halst. 319.
Judgment reversed.