Case Name: RYERSON against KITCHELL
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1807-02
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 168
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] RYERSON against KITCHELL.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 154–155

Head Matter:
[*] RYERSON against KITCHELL.
ON CERTIORARI, TO MORRIS COUNTY COMMON PLEAS.
On plea admitting a sum due plaintiff, without a tender, judgment must be for plaintiff.
The plaintiff in this court, was also plaintiff before the justice.

Opinion:
Kirkpatrick, C. J.
— The defendant in this suit, when instituted before Justice Manderville, filed a plea in writing to the demand of the plaintiff, in which plea he expressly admitted himself to owe to the plaintiff, twenty-eight shillings and sixpence, which he there tenders to the plaintiff, but does not pay it into court. Upon the hearing of the cause, the justice renders a judgment for the plaintiff for $57.21 and $5.53 cents costs. From this judgment there was an appeal to the Common Pleas of Morris, and there that judgment was reversed, and a new judgment entered for the defendant.
This judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, is now before this court by certiorari; and I am of opinion, that it .must be reversed. The defendant admits himself by this plea, to owe a certain sum; the tendering that sum to the plaintiff, is no payment; upon the plea itself, therefore, judgment ought to have been for the plaintiff.
The other justices concurred.
Judgment reversed.