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5 Del. 404

Waples v. Gum

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided June 5, 1853

Supreme Court of Delaware · decided 1853-06-05

<p>A writ of error lies to the Superior Court, in cases appealed from Justices of the Peaoe.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1991

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Decided 1853-06-05

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¶1 The Chancellor said, that before the Constitution of 1792, there was no appeal from a justice’s judgment. By that Constitution the convention to carry out the injunction that “ trial by jury shall be as heretofore,” gave the appeal and placed the case in the Superior Court, as an original case. And it is very proper that the right of appeal shall be preserved, since the enlargement of the justice’s jurisdiction.

*405 Layton, for plaintiff in error. Houston, for defendant in error.

¶2 The other judges concurred in refusing the motion to dismiss the writ of error.

¶3 The case was then argued by Mr. Layton, for plaintiff in error; and Mr. Houston, for the defendant in error; and the judgment below was finally affirmed.

¶4 Judgment affirmed.

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