Case Name: Wisner and others vs. Wilcocks and others
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1798-07
Citations: 1 Cole. Cas. 56
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wisner and others vs. Wilcocks and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Coleman's Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 56–57

Head Matter:
Wisner and others vs. Wilcocks and others.
EjeBment. /~\GILVIE moved that Amos WiU ^ cocks be admitted to defend jointly, on his affidavit that the defendants hold of him as their landlord.
Riggs for plaintiff' oppofed the granting a rule, becaufe the affidavit did not fpecify that Amos Wilcocks was in the receipt of rent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
There is no cafe which goes the length of faying that none are to be confidered as landlords within the meaning of this rule, but thofe who a&ually receive rents. Some dieta look that way, but it is the privity of intereft, and not the receiving of rent, which is the true teft, A mortgagee out of poffeffion may be let in to dcfencL Strangers only are to be excluded.
Vide 3 Burr. 1292 to 1304. Comb. 209. Runnington on Ejectment, 72. Butter 95.
Motion granted.