CASE, STATED - An agreement in
writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the
facts in dispute between them are as there agreed
upon and mentioned.
The facts being thus ascertained, it is left for
the court to decide for which party is the law. As
no writ of error lies on a judgment rendered on a
case stated, it is usual in the agreement to insert
a clause that the case stated shall be considered
in the nature of special verdict.
In that case, a writ of error lies on the judgment
which may be rendered upon it. And a writ of error
will also lie on a judgment on a case stated when
the parties have agreed to it.
In another sense, by a case stated is understood
a statement of all the facts of a case, together with
the names of the witnesses, and a detail of the documents
which are to support them. In other words, it is a
brief.
