Case Name: JOSEPH CLARK vs. MATTHEW PERKINS
Court: New Hampshire Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1826-02
Citations: 3 N.H. 339
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOSEPH CLARK vs. MATTHEW PERKINS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 339–340

Head Matter:
STRAFFORD,
FEBRUARY TERM, 1826.
JOSEPH CLARK vs. MATTHEW PERKINS.
Á person non compos mentis is neither capable of indorsing a writ, brought in his name, himself, nor of giving any other person authority to indorse it, with his name.
Where a suit was brought in the name of a person non compos mentis, residing in this state, and the writ indorsed by the attorney, who commenced the action, in a scire facias against the attorney, as indorser of the writ, the plaintiff had leave to amend upon terms.
This was a scire facias against the defendant, as indorser of a writ.
Moody, for the plaintiff,
moved the court for leave to amend the scire facias.
This motion was opposed by Woodbury,
on the ground, that the plaintiff in the writ indorsed by the defendant was an inhabitant of this state, in which case the court never granted leave to amend a scire facias against an indorser. Farnum vs. Bell, ante 12.
Moody then shewed, that the plaintiff in the writ indorsed by Perkins was, at the time the same was sued out, a person no n compos mentis and under guardianship, and contended. that the rule, laid down in Famum vs. Bell, could not apply to such a case ; because the non compos was incapable of indorsing his own writ, and also of giving any authority to indorse it.

Opinion:
And
the court,
being of that opinion, gave the plaintiff leave to amend upon terms.