Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1809 (Gilbert v. President of the Nantucket Bank)

Parsons, C. J.

The defendants move in arrest of judgment for several causes,

1. Because the writ is not endorsed by the plaintiffs’ agent or at torney. — The writ is endorsed, “ Seth Briggs,” without adding the capacity in which he acted; but he would be estopped [ * 98 ] from denying that he * endorsed as the plaintiffs’ agent.