Quimby v. Hopping
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Certiorari removing judgment of District Court of Jersey •City. The action was in debt, and the plaintiff’s demand was for $200. This sum. represented a balance thus reached: ‘The plaintiff showed his whole claim to have been $419.66; he reduced the amount by specific credits amounting to $200, and he waived $19.66 of the claim. Defendant filed a set-off for the items for which plaintiff had given credit. Judgment was rendered for $13 debt, and $8.64 costs.
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Certiorari removing judgment of District Court of Jersey •City. The action was in debt, and the plaintiff’s demand was for $200. This sum. represented a balance thus reached: ‘The plaintiff showed his whole claim to have been $419.66; he reduced the amount by specific credits amounting to $200, and he waived $19.66 of the claim. Defendant filed a set-off for the items for which plaintiff had given credit. Judgment was rendered for $13 debt, and $8.64 costs. ETo •appeal was taken, but this certiorari was sued out.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, J.
The first question for consideration in this-case is raised by the contention that this writ should be dismissed, as improperly allowed.
By the provisions of the various acts respecting District Courts, all causes therein are, for the purposes of proceedings to review the same, divided into two classes. The first class-comprises all suits “where the debt, demand or damage in controversy exceeds the sum or value of two hundred dollars,” and such suits, by the provisions of section 13 of the “Act relative to the jurisdiction and practice of…
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