16 Ga. 190 | Ga. | 1854
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
This rule seems to be rather arbitrary, and the reasons for it not very satisfactory: but this does not matter much, perhaps, if it be well understood to be the law. As a rule, it
Of course, if the recovery was their’s, personally, and the costs were due to them personally, all the incidents of such recovery must take effect with reference to them, and in no wise have relation to their intestate’s estate. The officers, then, should have issued their fi. fa. against Anselmn L. Harper and Wm. Shaw, the plaintiffs in the ease, and have caused a levy to have been made upon their property; for, according to the law which prevails on this subject, they had no right, whatever, to have this execution levied upon the land in question, belonging to the plaintiffs in error, and received from this estate; and the title of plaintiffs in error, was, of course, not divested by the sale.
The Court erred, therefore, in rejecting the exemplifications of the record from Clark County, offered for the purpose of showing that these administrators had declared on said note in their individual, and not their representative character.
Not only, does the record, which was thus rejected, show that these administrators had elected to treat this debt as their own, and not a debt of the estate ; but the settlement between them and the heirs, as proven by the depositions of Green
Here, if there was no foundation for an execution for costs, against the estate of John W. Harper — if the officers were not entitled, as they clearlyjrere not, to enter up judgment against the goods and chattels, rights and credits of John W. Harper, in the hands of Anselmn L. Harper and William Shaw, as administrators, ¿-c. they should not have caused their execution for costs to be levied on property of the plaintiffs in error, which had been property of the estate ; the levy was a trespass and the title of plaintiffs in error was not divested by the sale. Such title remained in them, and the purchasers cannot bo protected against that title.
These considerations dispose of the ease, and make it unnecessary for us to examine any other point made by the plaintiffs in error.
Let the judgment be reversed.’