McClane v. Boon
McClane v. Boon
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
¥e think the counsel for the plaintiff in error has mistaken the proper practice under the peculiar circumstances of the case. Application should have been made to the court below for the purpose of reviving the suit in the name of the widow and heirs of the deceased; and then a writ of error could have regularly issued.
If the court should refuse, then it would become neces *246 sary to issue it in the name of these representatives,, in the usual way, serving on them the citation to appear at the next term.
The case of Kellogg et al. v. Forsyth, * is an authority for issuing the writ in the name of the widow and heirs, and, also, for the appearance of these parties on the citation, and make objections to these proceedings if they see fit.
As the case now stands, the parties to the suit described in the writ, and in whose name's it was issued, are McClane, plaintiff in error, and Boon, defendant, deceased, and the citation is issued and served on parties, not parties to the record, which, of itself, is error. †
Writ oe error dismissed.
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- 1. Where,pending a writ of error to this court, subsequently dismissed, the defendant in error dies and the other side wishes to take a new writ, application should be made to the court below for the purpose of reviving the suit in the name of the representatives of the deceased. A writ of error can then regularly issue. A motion in' this court to revive the writ by suggesting the death and substituting the representatives as parties to the record is not regular. 2. If the court below should refuse an application such as that above contemplated, in the circumstances mentioned, then the writ may, from necessity, issue in the name of the representatives, in the usual way, serving on them the citation to appear at the next term.