Long v. England

The only grounds of exception set forth in the defendant’s petition for certiorari are to the effect that the magistrate should have sustained his demurrer setting up that no bill of particulars was attached to the account sued on, and that a mistrial should have been declared on the ground that the jury were not sworn, which omission is alleged to have been discovered after the verdict had been rendered but before the jury had dispersed. The answer of the magistrate shows that the summons was amended by attaching a bill of particulars to the account sued on. It further shows that, while no…