Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1807

Stretch v. Hancock

Stretch v. Hancock
Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided May 15, 1807
3 N.J.L. 207
Stretch v. Hancock

Opinion of the Court

Br the Court.

— It hath been frequently decided in this Court, that the justice cannot enter up judgment on these kind of instruments. The defendant must be brought into Court in the usual way, and the same proceeding had, as in other cases of written contracts. — Judgment reversed.

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