Case Name: Putnam and others against Shelof
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1815-10
Citations: 12 Johns. 435
Docket Number: 
Parties: Putnam and others against Shelof.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 435–435

Head Matter:
Putnam and others against Shelof.
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ÍN ERROR, on certiorari to a justice’s court.
The defendant in error brought an action of assumpsit, in the Court below, against the plaintiffs in error. At the trial, the plaintiff below proved a sale by him to the defendants, of a parcel of boards, for which they agreed to pay him 34 dollars.
The justice gave judgment for the plaintiff for 25 dollars, and costs.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This being an action sounding in damages, the plaintiff below had a right to waive his claim for the excess, over 25 dollars ; and the exception to the jurisdiction is not weU taken. (Tuttle v. Maston, 1 Johns. Cas. 25. Ibid. 333.)
Judgment affirmed.