Rayner v. Benjamin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The writ is directed to the Hudson county Court of Common Pleas, and brings up the judgment of that court reversing a summary conviction before a justice of the peace in Jersey City of violating the Pish and Game act by having certain birds’ feathers on sale. The reversal in the Pleas proceeded on the ground that a justice of the peace had no jurisdiction in such cases, in view of section 31 of the District Court act of 1898, as amended in 1908 (Pamph. L., pp. 76, 77), which provides that “no justice of the peace or small causé court shall…