People ex rel. Ricketts v. Moore
New York Supreme Court
On certiorari. These are proceedings by writ of certiorari to review the judgments rendered by the respondent Dewitt 0. Moore, police justice of the village of Johnstown, in two actions, in the first of which Mary Jane Moore was plaintiff, and the relator, Benjamin Ricketts, was defendant, and in the second of which Lydia Kennedy was plaintiff, and the relator, Samuel Loucks, was defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtLearned, J.
Dewitt C. Moore is police justice of the village of Johnstown. Mary Jane Moore commenced (or claims to have commenced) before him a ■civil action against the relator to recover certain chattels. The summons was served, and the property taken by a constable. Thereupon an answer was put in, and judgment was finally given for the plaintiff. Objections were ■taken on the hearing sufficient to raise the point here presented. The defendant then brought this certiorari. He claims—First, that the police- justice had no jurisdiction whatever to try a civil action, or at least only when the village is…
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