Case ID: njl_3/html/0006-01.html
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Author: {"author": "By the Court. — This", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[313] [*o] WARD against WILKIE and MARSHALL.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    ,Attorney in fact may not bug in his own name.
    
    The defendants in this court were the plaintiffs below; and brought their action against Ward, the plaintiff in error, for a- debt due to one Thomas Marshall, styling themselves in the state of the demand, attorneys in fact of Thomas Marshall.
    
      
       S P. ante, 380.
      
    
   By the Court. — This

judgment must be reversed. The action should have been brought in the name of Thomas Marshall, to whom the debt was due. If the plaintiffs were really attorneys for Thomas Marshall, they should have appeared for him; but had no right of action in themselves.

Judgment reversed.