Case Name: BRAY against VAN NOTE
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1806-11
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 143
Docket Number: 
Parties: BRAY against VAN NOTE.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 133–133

Head Matter:
BRAY against VAN NOTE.
ON CERTIORARI.
Reversal, written plea requisite, with set-off only. No style of action.

Opinion:
Kirkpatrick, C. J.
— The defendant filed no plea; and, therefore, the justice precluded him from making any defense before the jury. The act does not require a written plea, except in cases of set-off; the justice therefore in this, has mistaken the law; besides the style or nature of the action, does not appear on the record.
Eosseix and Pennington, Justices, concurred.
Judgment reversed.