# Veal v. Brown

> Supreme Court of New Jersey · September 15, 1806 · 2 N.J.L. 73

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## Case

- **Full name:** VEAL against BROWN
- **Court:** Supreme Court of New Jersey
- **Decided:** September 15, 1806
- **Citations:** 2 N.J.L. 73
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Kirkpatrick
- **Judges:** Kirkpatrick, Pennington, Rossell
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Kirkpatrick, C. J.
— The justice in this case, has sent up, as part of his proceedings, the venire issued for the summoning of a jury. It is for six lawful men, being freeholders, who are not of hind (kin probably is meant) to the parties. These qualifications do not make a lawful jury, according to the opinion which I gave in the case of Sayre v. Scudder, in this term.
Chetwood, for plaintiff.
I think the judgment must be reversed.
Rossell, J.
— Did not concur with the chief justice as to the defect in the venire, but the summons having no seal, he concurred in reversal.
[*] Pennington, J.
— I think that the judgment must be reversed — because the justice hath not entered in his docket the style or nature of the action, which the act of Assembly requires. But hath entered a style of action different from the real one. The state of demand is also defective; it ought, at least, to have stated that the hog killed was the plaintiff’s.
Judgment reversed.

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