18 Ga. 687 | Ga. | 1855
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
In this point of view, it may serve to elucidate or throw light upon the transaction. And we know that every fact or circumstance having this effect upon the issue being tried, constitutes proper evidence in any case.
We think that the Court erred, therefore, in rejecting this instrument.
Administrators or executors, plaintiffs in an action, are bound by their admissions, in relation to the subject-matter of the suit, and they make them at their peril. They may injure the estate by making these improvidently; but the consequences must be between them and the estate. These admissions must be acted on by third persons with whom they deal, and must be held binding on those who make them, certainly, in all suits instituted by them. Hill vs. Buckminster, (5 Pick. 391.)
Any other rule would most unjustly place every one hav-ing dealings with these trustees, entirely at their mercy. ¡
Let the judgment be reversed.