Hawley v. Middlebrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
.Debt, on a recognizance. The declaration ¿lleged that the defendant, on the 7th of August, 1855, entered into a recognizance in the sum of fifty dollars, before John H. Whiting, *Esq., then a justice of the peace for the county [ *528 ] of Fairfield', upon a writ of attachment issued by the justice in favor of one David B. Wells against the present plaintiff, for the payment of all damages to the defendant in the suit, if the plaintiff therein should fail to prosecute 1ns…
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.Debt, on a recognizance. The declaration ¿lleged that the defendant, on the 7th of August, 1855, entered into a recognizance in the sum of fifty dollars, before John H. Whiting, *Esq., then a justice of the peace for the county [ *528 ] of Fairfield', upon a writ of attachment issued by the justice in favor of one David B. Wells against the present plaintiff, for the payment of all damages to the defendant in the suit, if the plaintiff therein should fail to prosecute 1ns suit to effect? and that a judgment was recovered in the superior court in that case by the present .plaintiff for costs…
1Opinion of the CourtStorks, C. J.
Whatever may be the right of a justice of the peace at common law to perfect his records while he holds his office, in regard to the place where it should be done, we are of the opinion that, by a just construction of the act (Rev. Stat., tit. 1, § 139,) authorizing a justice of the peace removed from, or not reappointed to office, for other cause than the commission of some crime, he has a right, as occasion may require, to exercise that power at any place, whether within or without this state. The act is entirely unrestricted as to the place where the power may be exercised, and, by…
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