People v. Bradt
New York Supreme Court
THE defendant was brought before the court, on an attachment, for the non-payment of the costs, in several actions of ejectment, in which he was one of the lessors.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court
said, that, under the circumstances disclosed by the affidavits, the defendant ought to be discharged, on motion ; that it would be useless to put him to answer interrogatories, when it appeared, that he had been made a lessor against his consent, and had no interest in the premises claimed by the suit. The Court also, expressed a strong disapprobation of the practice of making persons lessors in ejectment, against their consent; and said, that if an attorney makes a person a lessor against his will, and without authority, and the nominal plaintiff, afterwards, becomes nonsuit, the…
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