Vance's Heirs v. Maroney

The office of the writ of error is to cause the removal of the record and judgment sought to be reviewed, and to commission the court in which it is returnable, to examine- the errors alleged. It must describe specifically *294the record and judgment, and the cause wherein such judgment was given, and must, of course, therefore set forth who were parties to that proceeding. It must also show to whose injury the error alleged has intervened, and the parties so named are the plaintiffs in error. It need not, however, and indeed never can show who are the defendants in error j for as to them it has…