Case ID: njl_9/html/0416-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ford, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*335] *David James ads. Sarah Cox.
    IN DOWER.
    A general authority to an attorney to sign the sheriff’s name, will not authorize him to appoint a deputy to serve process.
    
      W. Halsted
    
    moved to quash the writ of dower which had been served in this case by a person, not the sheriff of the county, by virtue of a special deputation, endorsed upon the writ by the attorney of the plaintiff, he having a general authority from the sheriff to make such deputations, and sign the sheriff’s name thereto; and he contended that the attorney could not, by virtue of this general power, appoint a deputy to serve process ; that the maxim of the law was that “ a delegated power could not be delegated.”
    
      Wall, contra.
   Ford, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court, that a general deputation to an attorney was insufficient to enable him to authorize a person to serve process, and that he could not transfer his authority to another.

Service of the writ quashed.