Hugill v. Reed
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This is a motion to double the damages found against a landlord, at the suit of a tenant, for distraining and selling plaintiff’s goods when no rent was due.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
In the trial at the Circuit the jury returned that they assessed the single damages of the plaintiff at $508.65, for the value of the goods and chattels wrongfully seized and distrained, and $291.35 for her loss and disturbance and injury to her business.
On the coming in of the postea the counsel for the plaintiff moves to double the amount found as the value of the goods, by force of the eleventh section of the act concerning distresses.
The answer to this motion which the counsel for the defendant makes is that the plaintiff, by his pleadings,…
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