Seidel v. Cahajla

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

This certiorari is to review a judgment of the First District Court of the City of Paterson summarily dispossessing a tenant. Therefore, the only question which, under our practice, we shall consider on certiorari is whether the District Court had jurisdiction to award the judgment. Degenring v. Kimble, 115 N. J. L. 379; Moreland v. Steen, 89 N. J. L. 383. The affidavit upon which the summons issued alleged a default in the payment of rent, the failure to do interior decorating and to cut the grass and care for flowers and shrubbery and the…