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20 N.H. 52

Ela v. Goss

Superior Court of New Hampshire

Decided January 15, 1849

Superior Court of New Hampshire · decided 1849-01-15

Petition, to set aside a judgment of a justice of the peace. The petitioner had -been impleaded at the- suit of the defendant in an action of assumpsit, before a justice of the peace, and in the writ and summons had been described as of Allenstown, whereas his residence was, at the time the action was brought, in Concord.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1938

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Decided 1849-01-15

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Gilchrist, O. J.

¶1The question presented here is simply whether the case made by the petition is one upon which the plaintiff is entitled to relief, or whether, at this stage, the defendant is entitled to have the same dismissed.

¶2The power' and jurisdiction of this court extend to the “ general superintendence of all courts of inferior jurisdiction, for the prevention and correction of errors and abuses, where the laws have not expressly provided a remedy.” Rev. Stat., eh. 171, sec. 4.

¶3The present case is clearly one for which no remedy exists by any formal writ, and for which it may be said that no express remedy is provided by law; and we cannot say that it is not one of error and abuse, requiring the interposition of the extraordinary powers of this court for its remedy, and that, upon the exhibition of evidence of all the facts connected with the case stated, there may not appear some ground upon which the petitioner may be entitled to relief. The petition ought not, therefore, to be dismissed, but to stand till the coming in of such proofs as the parties may be advised to take.

¶4Motion to dismiss denied.

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