Longnecker v. Greenwade

Lucy Ann Trimble, a minor, by Isaac Trimble, her father and prochein amy, sued Greenwade for slander. The father being insolvent, Longnecker was substituted as the next friend. And afterwards, Greenwade having pleaded justification, the infant plaintiff and her father made a compromise with him in consequence of which—at their united instance and against the consent of Longnecker as next friend—the Circuit Court dismissed the suit, according to the agreement of compromise, without any judgment for costs.

To reverse that judgment, Longnecker prosecutes this writ of error.

As the plaintiff in…