12 Wend. 473 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1834
By the Court,
The rule laid down by the chief justice in Cleaveland v. Rogers, 6 Wendell, 438, so far as the judgments of the justice’s courts of this state ai’e concerned, must be considered as confined to the case of an avowry or other pleading subsequent to the declaration, there being various instances in which greater certainty is necessary in a plea than in a declaration, and more certainty being required in a replication than in a declaration, though certainty to a common intent is in general sufficient. 1 Chitty’s Pl. 514, 624. See also 1 Johns. R. 384, and 10 id. 372, 428.
The acts of the legislature of this state, conferring civil jurisdiction upon justices of the peace, and authorizing them to take cognizance of certain actions, is a public act, of which the court is bound to take judicial notice. Looking into the declaration in this case, with reference to these acts, it cannot but be perceived that the justice had jurisdiction of the case, and was competent to render the judgment sought to be
Motion in arrest denied.