Ex parte Holbrook

Decided October 15, 1825

New York Supreme Court · decided 1825-10-15

On appeal to the C. P. of Jefferson county by Holbrook, Fessenden, Adams and Lee, against W. & I. Symonds, the Court quashed the appeal, because the appeal bond was executed by C. Rice, as attorney for Holbrook and Fessenden.

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Decided 1825-10-15

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Sutherland, J.

¶1remarked, in giving the opinion of the Court, that it involved the same point with that; for it was clear that a general power to defend all causes, <fcc., would not authorize the attorney to execute an appeal bo“~d in the name of his client.

¶2Rule for a mandamus