23 Mo. 99 | Mo. | 1856
delivered the opinion of tbe court.
Tbe plaintiff, as executrix, instituted an action in a justice’s court for an alleged trespass upon her testator’s land, committed since bis decease, which, on a plea of title, was removed into tbe Land Court, where it was dismissed upon the ground that the plaintiff could not maintain a suit in that capacity for tbe alleged wrong. •
The judgment must be affirmed. Tbe real estate of a deceased person descends, upon bis death, to bis heirs, or passes to the devisees under his will. By tbe common law, tbe per