Case Name: Almira Crossen versus Darius Dryer
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1821-09
Citations: 16 Tyng 221
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Almira Crossen versus Darius Dryer.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 178–178

Head Matter:
* Almira Crossen versus Darius Dryer.
A prochein ami is a party, within the meaning of the statute requiring original writs to be endorsed by the plaintiff, or his agent or attorney.
The plaintiff, in this action, which was case for words spoken, being a minor, sued it by Oliver Crossen, her father and next friend, by whom the original writ was endorsed. In the Common Pleas, the plaintiff had been ordered, on the defendant’s motion, to procure a new endorser, from which order she appealed to this Court.
Jones and Jarvis, for the plaintiff.
Whiting and Dwight, for the defendant.

Opinion:
And by the Court here, the prochein ami is a party, within the meaning of the statute requiring original writs to be endorsed by the plaintiff or his agent or attorney. Vide Stat. 1784, c. 25. $ 11.