Case Name: WARD against WILKIE and MARSHALL
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1808-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 411
Docket Number: 
Parties: [313] [*o] WARD against WILKIE and MARSHALL.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 6–6

Head Matter:
[313] [*o] WARD against WILKIE and MARSHALL.
ON CERTIORARI.
,Attorney in fact may not bug in his own name.
The defendants in this court were the plaintiffs below; and brought their action against Ward, the plaintiff in error, for a- debt due to one Thomas Marshall, styling themselves in the state of the demand, attorneys in fact of Thomas Marshall.
S P. ante, 380.

Opinion:
By the Court. — This
judgment must be reversed. The action should have been brought in the name of Thomas Marshall, to whom the debt was due. If the plaintiffs were really attorneys for Thomas Marshall, they should have appeared for him; but had no right of action in themselves.
Judgment reversed.