Davis v. Parker
Superior Court of Delaware
Action of Trespass.—Judgment by default was rendered in favor of plaintiff for seventy-five dollars and costs by John S. Jester, a Justice of the Peace for said county, who afterwards died, and at the time of the taking of the certiorari the papers of said Justice had been turned over to Peter L. Cooper, the Justice above named.
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Action of Trespass.—Judgment by default was rendered in favor of plaintiff for seventy-five dollars and costs by John S. Jester, a Justice of the Peace for said county, who afterwards died, and at the time of the taking of the certiorari the papers of said Justice had been turned over to Peter L. Cooper, the Justice above named. The following causes of diminution were filed at the April Term, 1900, to the record of said deceased Justice as sent up by Peter L. Cooper, his successor, viz.: 1. That a copy of the statement filed in the suit before the Justice by Anderson Parker, is not sent up by…
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.:
—The judgment is reversed, because it does not
sufficiently appear to the Court that a proper statement under the law was filed.
2Cited by1 opinion
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