¶1The recognizance should have been returned to the Court of Common Pleas, to which court the appeal was made, and there filed as a record of that court, upon which the action should have been brought. The plaintiff has not declared, in either of his counts, as upon a record of the Common Pleas, and for this the declaration must be adjudged bad.
7 Mass. 209
Bridge v. Ford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1810
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1810-10-15
In this action of debt upon a recognizance entered into before a justice of the peace, and of which a partial report was made, (vol. 4, page 641,) the plaintiff had leave, by consent, to amend by filing any new counts, the defendant waiving his demurrer.ϯ [ * 210 ] * The plaintiff accordingly filed three new counts In the first he recites, that, pursuant to a law of the commonwealth, passed March 4, 1790, entitled “An act to regulate the catching of salmon, shad, and…
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1810-10-15
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1942
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →