Roger B. Taney

“ In the case in 8 Peters, 526, the writ of error issued in the name of 'Mary Deneale, executrix of George Deneale and others.' It was dismissed on the motion of the defendants in error, and the Court said, 'the present writ of error is brought by Mary Deneale 'and others' as plaintiffs; but who the others are cannot be known to the Court, for their names are not given in the writ of error, as they ought to be. Mary Deneale cannot alone maintain a writ of error on this judgment ”

“ Life and Fire Insurance Company of New York
The proceedings in this case were instituted in the district court for the eastern district of Louisiana, for the purpose of procuring the sale of certain property mortgaged by Nicholas Wilson in his lifetime, to the Life and Fire Insurance Company of New York. The widow and children of the deceased were made defendants in the petition, and the judgment in the district court was in favour of the plaintiffs. The widow, it appears, was entitled to her community in the property mortgaged ”