Case Name: Daniel Waters, defendant below, Appellant, v. James H. and Andrew Kirby, plaintiffs below, Respondents
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1857
Citations: 1 Houst. 364
Docket Number: 
Parties: Daniel Waters, defendant below, Appellant, v. James H. and Andrew Kirby, plaintiffs below, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 364–364

Head Matter:
Daniel Waters, defendant below, Appellant, v. James H. and Andrew Kirby, plaintiffs below, Respondents.
An appeal from a justice of the peace will not he dismissed, because his certificate to the transcript states merely that “ the foregoing is a true transcript in the above case copied from my docket;” but the same may be amended.
On appeal from a justice of the peace. The certificate of the justice appended to the copy of the docket entries sent up by him was as follows: “ The foregoing is a true transcript in the above case duly copied from my docket,” signed by the justice.
Patterson, for the plaintiff below,
moved to dismiss the appeal for the want of a proper certificate by the justice of “ all the docket entries in the case before him,” as the statute requires.
Booth, for the defendant below:
The motion to dismiss the appeal is too late, as the plaintiffs have appeared to the citation and filed their pronarr in the case. But, if I am wrong in this, it is not too late to. amend the certificate, and ask leave for the justice to do so. Green v. Kinney, 2 Harr. 160; Lewis v. Hazel, 4 Harr. 470.

Opinion:
The Court
refused to dismiss the appeal, and gave leave to the justice to amend his certificate, upon the ruling in the case of Green v. Kinney, 2 Harr. 160.