Blight v. Meeker
Supreme Court of New Jersey
ON CERTIORARI. This is a certiorari to the Essex Common Pleas, to bring up a judgment given by the Common Pleas upon an appeal from the court for the trial of small causes.
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ON CERTIORARI. This is a certiorari to the Essex Common Pleas, to bring up a judgment given by the Common Pleas upon an appeal from the court for the trial of small causes. From the justice’s transcript and papers sent up, it appeared, that one of the plaintiffs went before the justice and made oath of their debt, and that they would be in danger of losing their debt if process against the defendant should be by summons ; ‘that the justice thereupon issued a warrant against, the defendant, for one hundred dollars; that the constable, on the same day, arrested the defendant, and took a bond,…
1Per curiam
Both the courts did wrong; an arrest is-an imprisonment, and comes within the meaning of the act.The issuing of a warrant against a woman was therefore-improper.
Let the judgment be reversed.-
2Cited by1 opinion
- State v. FerraroNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1963