Sales Method Co. v. City Meat Market

In some jurisdictions it is held that when a justice of the peace hears a case, he may re serve its decision for some reasonable but definite time when he will pronounce judg,ment, so that the parties may be present and govern themselves accordingly. Hall v. Reber, 36 Ill. 483; Oalwell v. Swick, 190 Ill. App. 369; Sear v. Emerson, 160 Ill. App. 276; Murray v. Churchill, 86 Ill. App. 480; State v. Houston, 36 Mont. 178, 92 P. 476, 12 Ann. Cas. 1027; Edwards v. Hance, 12 N. J. Law, 108; Clark v. Read, 5 N. J. Law, 486.

In Saunders v. Pike, 6 Or. 312, the power to reserve decision for an…