This is a writ of error sued out by Charles Shaw, Royal Shaw and Elbridge G. Rich against Royal E. Blair, to reverse a judgment of the court of common pleas.
The original action was trespass quare clausum, by the defendant in error, against the three plaintiffs in error
Before looking at the error assigned, and deciding upon it, there is a preliminary question to be decided, namely, whether this writ is rightly sued out by the three plaintiffs in error. Whether the verdict was intended to be returned, as contended, against all the defendants, or the party defendant, we cannot now know; if it had been so intended, and the judgment' had followed it, there would have been no error. But the judgment was in fact rendered against Charles Shaw only.
The general rule is, that a writ of error must be sued out by those who were parties or privies to the judgment complained of, and which is sought to be reversed, and by no others. The general rule is laid down in Bac. Ab. Tit. Error, B.; 2 Wms. Saund. 46, note 6; 101, e; Parker v. Lawrence, Hob. 70; Vaughan v. Lorimer, Cro. Jac. 138; Jaqueth v. Jackson, 17 Wend. 434. No one can maintain a writ of error to reverse a judgment but he who is aggrieved by it. The writ alleges error to the great damage of the plaintiff. Alling v. Shelton, 16 Conn. 436; Co. Lit. 288. The fact that the original action is against three is not sufficient to authorize the three to join, if judgment was not rendered against them all. Where three were sued in trespass, and one was acquitted, and judgment rendered against the other two, it was held, that they could bring error, and that the one acquitted ought not to be joined. Cannon v. Abbot, 1 Lev. 210 There being no judgment against the three plaintiffs in error
Writ of error quashed.