25 Ga. 240 | Ga. | 1858
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
The plaintiff in error promised to par?, “ as trustee,” expressed in the body of the promissory notes ; to his name, subscribed to each note, he added, “ trustee for Mrs. Abbey Farrar.”
Since the institution of this suit, the Legislature has passed an Act to authorize claims against trust estates to be recovered in a Court of law.
It is an Act respecting the remedy, and claims arisiflg before its passage, may be collected under it.
The Court below erred in refusing the motion to dismiss the case, and also in charging the jury that the defendant was personally liable, and that a Court of law haffTrisdiction of the case. *
J udgmSrn* reversed.