People ex rel. Hallock v. Sleight

Headnote

Certiorari — review of judgment injustice’s court.

A common law certiorari held not to be allowable to review a justice’s court judgment, for the reason that the time for appealing had expired. The only mode of reviewing such judgments is by appeal, as provided by the Code, § 351.

Certiorari issued upon the relation of George W. Hallock, to review a judgment recovered before Brinley D. Sleight, a justice of the peace of the town of East Hampton, Suffolk county.

The judgment in question was recovered against the relator, under the name of Richard Roe, by one Nathaniel Dominy, for a penalty. The only papers in the case were the following writ and the return of the respondent thereto:

“The people of the State of New York, to Brinley D. Sleight, Esq., one of the justices of the peace of the county of Suffolk, greeting: Whereas, in a certain cause lately pending in our court held before you, wherein Nathaniel Dominy was plaintiff and George W. Hallock, by the name of Richard Roe, was defendant, of a plea for a penalty, judgment has been given by you in our said court against the said George W. Hallock, as it is said, and we being willing, for certain causes, to be certified of the same, and of the proceedings therein, do therefore command you that the said proceedings and judgments, with the process, pleadings and all other .things touching the same, in as full and ample a manner as the same remain before you, distinctly and plainly under your seal, you send to our justices of our supreme court, at the court-house in Riverhead, in Suffolk county, on the 4th Monday of April next, together with this writ, so that our said Supreme Court may further cause to be done therein what of righ.t ought to be done.

“Witness, Abraham B. Tappen, Esq., justice of our said [l. s.] Supreme Court, at the court-house in the city oi Brooklyn, the 18th day of March, 1874.

“George C. Campbell, Olerk.”

Such other facts as are of importance appear in the opinion.