Case Name: Walter Blake, Adm'r, vs. Nathan Hill
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1837-05
Citations: 14 Me. 417
Docket Number: 
Parties: Walter Blake, Adm'r, vs. Nathan Hill.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 417–417

Head Matter:
Walter Blake, Adm'r, vs. Nathan Hill.
Where the plaintiff, an inhabitant of the State, indorses his writ, enters his action, and dies, and his administrator comes in and prosecutes; no new indorser is required.
Exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas, Smith J. presiding.
Moody Mtmroe, the original plaintiff, an inhabitant of the State, entered this action at the December term, 1830, having himself indorsed the writ, and died in 1834. At the April term, 1836, the defendant moved, that a new indorser should be furnished. At the next term, Walter Blake, having been appointed administrator, appeared in that capacity to prosecute the suit. At the April term, 1837, the defendant renewed his motion for a new indorser, and it was overruled by the Court, to which the defendant excepted.
Harding, for the defendant,
contended, that this case was within the equity of the st. of 1821, c. 59, <§> 8, and cited Oysted v. Shed, 8 Mass. 11. 272.
JE. Smith, for the defendant, was stopped by the Court.

Opinion:
By the Court,
at the same term.
The case presented, is not one in which a new indorser may be required.