State v. Meyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The facts upon which this case must be determined are as follows:

Jacob Bitz brought his suit in the District Court of Essex county, against Michael Meyer, for malicious prosecution.

The judge of the District Court found that Meyer had maliciously instituted a civil suit by summons, against Bitz, in a justice’s court at Caldwell, upon the trial of which Meyers testified that both he and Bitz were residents of the city of Newark, and thereupon the justice dismissed said suit for want of jurisdiction, the jurisdiction in such case being…