Case Name: Whitly v. Barker
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1792-03
Citations: 1 Root 406
Docket Number: 
Parties: Whitly v. Barker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 406–407

Head Matter:
Whitly v. Barker.
Service upon a writ indorsed by an attorney, doth not conclude the party, without special authority.
Writ or EbRoe against the judgment of the County Court, in a certain cause, in which Col. Oleaveland was attorney to said Barker who lived in this state; Oleaveland indorsed upon the writ of error, as attorney to Barker that he acknowledged said writ had been duly served, without any special authority from Barker to do it. Barker plead in abatement of the writ that it had never been served upon him, as the law required.

Opinion:
Plea in. abatement adjudged, sufficient; tbe party is not concluded by tbe indorsement of tbe attorney in sucb case, without special authority.