Nash v. Coffey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a recognizance under the Gen. Sts. o. 124, § 10; submitted to the judgment of the court on facts agreed, upon which the issue was raised, whether Coffey, the judgment debtor, was lawfully admitted to take the oath for the relief of poor debtors, by a trial justice, the only designation of whose official capacity, in his notice to the creditor of the time and place appointed for the debtor’s examination, was by the addition of “ justice of the peace ” to his…
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Contract on a recognizance under the Gen. Sts. o. 124, § 10; submitted to the judgment of the court on facts agreed, upon which the issue was raised, whether Coffey, the judgment debtor, was lawfully admitted to take the oath for the relief of poor debtors, by a trial justice, the only designation of whose official capacity, in his notice to the creditor of the time and place appointed for the debtor’s examination, was by the addition of “ justice of the peace ” to his signature.
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The statute requires the notice of the time and place appointed for the examination of the debtor to be signed by the magistrate, “ designating his official capacity.” The designation of “ justice of the peace ” attached to the signature of the magistrate in this case does not show that he had any capacity to issue the notice, for a justice of the peace has no jurisdiction or authority in the premises, unless he has also been designated and commissioned as a trial justice. The notice was therefore insufficient. Gen. Sts. c. 124, §§ 9,12. Carter v. Clohecy, 100 Mass. 299. Maloney v. Piper,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Carter v. ClohecyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868