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19 Tenn. 394

Gray v. Wilson

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1838

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1838-12-15

About three weeks before the Nashville races in the fall of 1337, Samuel Wilson made a bet of $100 with John Carson upon a race to be run by certain horses. On the day of the race, Thomas Davis and Henry T. Gray agreed to become jointly and equally interested in the bet; and each of them placed in his hands $ 33 33£ as their shares of it; whereupon he deposited $100 in the hands of Samuel D. Wilson as stakeholder.

Decided 1838-12-15

Green, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2There is error in the record in this case.

¶3The hundred dollars deposited with Wilson the stakeholder, belonged jointly to Gray, Davis and Wilson, the original plaintiffs, there could,therefore, be no recovery except [in the name of all these parties. Wilson had no right to compromise the suit, and dismiss it, without the consent of his co-plaintiffs,

¶4If he had received satisfaction for his part of the amount claimed, still the other plaintiffs had a right to prosecute the suit in the name of all three, for their use.

¶5Perhaps the court at the trial, might have construed the previous order dismissing the suit as to Wilson, so as not to affect the rights of Gray & Davis. If so, there was error in the judgment.

¶6At any rate, there is error in the record, for which the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded for another trial, in the name of all the original plaintiffs.

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