Court Opinion

ID: 6416207
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 11:56:21.796275+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:19.904690
License: Public Domain

Gray, J.
The statute requires the notice of the time and place appointed for the examination of the debtor to be signed by the magistrate, “ designating his official capacity.” The designation of “ justice of the peace ” attached to the signature of the magistrate in this case does not show that he had any capacity to issue the notice, for a justice of the peace has no jurisdiction or authority in the premises, unless he has also been designated and commissioned as a trial justice. The notice was therefore insufficient. Gen. Sts. c. 124, §§ 9,12. Carter v. Clohecy, 100 Mass. 299. Maloney v. Piper, ante 233.

Judgment for the plaintiff*