24 Miss. 168 | Miss. Ct. App. | 1852
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error brought suit upon a bill single, made by defendant in error, payable to the plaintiff as administrator, &c., of Joel McNeely, deceased. Among other pleas, was one that the plaintiff was not, at the institution of the suit, administrator of McNeely. This plea was demurred to, and the demurrer was overruled. The court erred in overruling the demurrer. This court has, by repeated decisions, heretofore held, that where a note is made payable to a party as administrator, the words “ as administrator,” are merely descriptive of the person, and do not change the nature of the action, which may be maintained in the party’s own name, and in his own right. Carter et al. v. Saunders, 2 Howard, 851. Again, in Laughman et al. v. Thompson et al. 6 S. & M. 259, a suit was brought by Shem Thompson on a note payable to him as administrator de bonis non of Hezekiah Hermon, deceased. Shem Thompson
Let the judgment of the circuit court be reversed, and the demurrer of the plaintiff to defendant’s fourth plea be sustained, and the cause remanded for further proceeding.