Case ID: njl_7/html/0076-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Aaron Swayze against Abraham Coursen, Assignee of W. Gibbs.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    A man cannot bring an action in the name of another, without authority.
    
      A judgment had been rendered by the justice against Swayze, the defendant below, at the suit of the defendant, Ooursen. It appeared, by the return of the justice to a rule taken upon him to certify the fact, that the summons in the cause was not demanded by Abraham Ooursen, but by Jacob-Swisher, and that Abraham Ooursen never appeared in the progress of the cause ; ñor was there any evidence that Abraham Ooursen had any knowledge of the prosecution, or that he had authorized it in any way whatsoever — it was conducted solely by Jacob Swisher.
    
      Miller,
    
    upon the statement of the above facts, moved to reverse the j udgment.
   Per Curiam-.

A man cannot bring an action in the name of another, without authority.

Judgment reversed.