Case: Williams, Plaintiff in Error, against The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, Defendants in Error
Abbreviation: Williams v. President of the Bank
Decision Date: 1826
Docket Number: 
Citation: 11 Wheat. 414
Volume: 24
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Williams, Plaintiff in Error, against The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, Defendants in Error.
Judges: 
Pages: 414–415

Head Matter:
[Practice.]
Williams, Plaintiff in Error, against The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, Defendants in Error.
Where there is a joint judgment against several defendants, and one only sues out the writ of 'error without joining the others, it is irregular; but if the others refuse to join in it, qu/zre, whether the plaintiff uiay not have summons and severance?
March 8th.
IN this case, in which Mr. Wright was for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Webster, for the defendánts:

Opinion:
Mr. Chief Justice Marshall
stated, that the writ of error must be dismissed, it having issued irregularly. The judgment in thé Circuit. Court of Ohio was a joint judgment, upon a joint action for money lent, against three defendants; and the writ of error was sued out by one of the defendants, in his own name only, without joining the others. The Court was of opinion, that the writ of error ought to have been in the name of the three ; .and if the others should refuse to join in it, that it would deserve consideration whether the present plaintiff' might not have summons and severance.
Writ of error dismissed.