Case Name: Staley against Barhite and Wife
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1804-11
Citations: 2 Cai. 221
Docket Number: 
Parties: Staley against Barhite and Wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 221–221

Head Matter:
Staley against Barhite and Wife.
If in assumpsit, by husband and wife, it be not shown why the wife is joined, it will be fatal on error. So if a jury be delivered in charge of a person not a constable.
In Error, on certiorari.

Opinion:
Ostrander submitted that the judgment obtained against the now plaintiff, by the present defendants, ought to be reversed: 1. Because the wife was joined in the action below, which was assumpsit, without showing how she had any interest; 2. Because it appeared from the record, that a person not a constable was sworn to attend the jury; and for these reasons the judgment was accordingly reversed.