12 Johns. 417
Decided October 15, 1815
New York Supreme Court · decided 1815-10-15
IN ERROR, on certiorari to a justice’s court. • A summons was issued, at the suit of Meigs, against Stewart, and returnable at the house of Clark Lawrence, inn-keeper, on 1 , - ,i «7 .«.ii-ir a the 26th ox April, 1813, at nine o’clock m the forenoon.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1854
Relies on Case v. Van Ness
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Decided 1815-10-15
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¶1Whether the delay at Lawrence's house would operate as a discontinuance, need not be decided. The trial of the cause at the justice’s own house, a different place from that appointed in the summons, was irregular, and the judgment must be reversed. (Case v. Van Ness, 1 Johns. Cas. 243.)
¶2Judgment reversed.