Parker v. Wallace

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This suit was brought originally in a court for the trial of small causes, where, on trial, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff. The defendant then appealed to the Gloucester Common Pleas, and there a judgment of affirmance was entered by consent of the appellant’s attorney. The appellant then sued out of the Supreme Court a writ of certiorari, on return of* which the counsel of the parties agreed “ that a formal affirmance be entered, to the end that a writ of error may be taken,” and accordingly a rule for affirmance embodying this…