Case Name: Martin Williams vs. David Field
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1845-09
Citations: 1 How. Pr. 214
Docket Number: 
Parties: Martin Williams vs. David Field.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 214–214

Head Matter:
Martin Williams vs. David Field.
Where an affidavit is made by an agent under the statute authorizing summary proceedings to recover possession of land, motion papers made subsequently in the matter should be entitled with the name of the principal, and not of the agent. .
Motion by Field to quash a writ of certiorari for irregularity.—The counsel for plaintiff objected that the moving papers showed that the proceedings in the justices’ court were between Isaac Merritt and said Martin Williams; and that David Field was only the agent for Merritt, and as such, made the affidavit under the statute authorizing summary proceedings to recover possession of land.
N. B. Hoxie, Hefts Counsel. N. B. Hoxie, Hefts Atty.
R. H. Shannon, Plffs Counsel. R. H. Shannon, Plffs Atty.

Opinion:
Beardsley, Justice.
The defendant's papers are therefore wrongly entitled.
Motion denied with costs, without prejudice.