Grimshaw v. Carroll

*731The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

In an action of ejectment the plaintiff deduced her claim of title from one of the defendants through the docketing in the Essex Common Pleas of a so-called judgment entered against him in the Newark District Court. At the trial the plaintiff was nonsuited on the ground that the docketing was effected without an affidavit of belief that the debtor was not possessed of goods and chattels sufficient to satisfy the amount due, such an affidavit being, in the opinion of the trial judge, a statutory prerequisite to lawful docketing.

By the decision…