Case Name: Hugh Miller adsm. Robert Carhart
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1819-11
Citations: 5 N.J.L. 720
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hugh Miller adsm. Robert Carhart.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 828–829

Head Matter:
Hugh Miller adsm. Robert Carhart.
Euleto take fií£tr
THE judgment of the justice having been reversed, m°ved for leave to take from the files, the sealed bill given by Carhart to Miller, and on which the action was brought.
Nicholls vs. State, ante 542. Morris Canal ads. State, 2 Gr. 411 Morrell vs. Fearing, Spen. 670. See Browning vs. Cooper, 3 Har. 196.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The original evidences of the debt, such as bonds, bills, and notes, on which the suit is brought, ought not to be sen t up with the certiorari. The justice ought to send certified copies of them. The originals are very seldom necessary, or at all useful, in this court; and when necessary may be obtained, by special rule, for that purpose. When they are sent up, they can only be taken from the files by rule for that purpose, ordered upon the minutes, that it may appear when and why they were taken. Let the rule be entered, and the bill taken, in the present case.