Doll v. Shafto

This writ brings up a judgment entered in the court of a justice of the peace in the city of Asbury Park in a suit on a book account against the prosecutor who alleges in his brief that he resides in Neptune township. The judgment is for $125.20. His argument in the brief is that the justice has no jurisdiction because chapter 211 of the laws of 1921 provides that no justice of the. peace shall have jurisdiction over any cause cognizable before a District Court where the defendant resides within any city or judicial district where a District Court is established; and so he invokes the rule in…