 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1850 - 898 pages
...common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are numerous and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. Amended Code, § 119. § 611. Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including... | |
 | 1851 - 520 pages
...complaint; and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. "S. 120. Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including the... | |
 | New York (State), Member of the New-York Bar - 1851 - 410 pages
...complaint, and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons ; or when the parties are very numerous and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the <;ourt, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. § 120. [100.] Parties to bills... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1852 - 716 pages
...follows : " And when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons ; or when the parties are very numerous and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole." (Code, § 119.) This was also in accordance with the then existing practice of courts of... | |
 | New York (State) - 1852 - 606 pages
...complaint, and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons ; or when the parties are very numerous and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. A member of an incorporated association cannot maintain in his name for the benefit of the... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1853 - 810 pages
...whole. plaint, and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. Plaintiff may SEC. 2i. Persons severally liable upon the same obligi•neinoneac fton or... | |
 | California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - 1853 - 1108 pages
...common or general interest, of many persons, or when the parties are numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. SEC. 15. Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or in- Serena parties may be sued in strument,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1855 - 802 pages
...complaint, and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons ; or when the parties are very numerous and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. c. The rale that persons only severally and not jointly liable cannot be joined as défendante,... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1856 - 334 pages
...whole. plaint, and when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole. Plaintiff may SEC. 21. Persona severally liable upon the same obligasue in one ac- tion... | |
 | 1856 - 598 pages
...Code is too unequivocal and broad to admit of any doubt that the legislature intended that when the parties " are very numerous, and it may be impracticable...court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole," whether the action would have been, under the old system, legal or equitable. Those distinctions,... | |
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... when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the Court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole, one action... 
