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Waters v. Creagh

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1823

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1823-12-15

J0HM G- CREAGH, surviving executor of John Mitchell, and S. B. Shields executor of P. F. Bayard, who was 00 execut01' with Creagh of said Mitchell, declared in debt in the Circuit Court of Marengo County, against Stacy B. Waters, on his bill single, payable to Creagh and Bayard executors of Mitchell. Judgment final by default. Waters prosecuted a writ of Error to this Court; the assignment of Error on which the case was decided appears in the

Decided 1823-12-15

¶1Opinion of the Court delivered by

Judge Saffold.

¶2When there are several executors, some of whom die before the administration is completed, the interest devolves exclusively on the last survivor and his executors, if any. Toller, 44. But it is said, that the note being payable to Creagh and Bayard, they had a right, in their individual-characters, to bring an action on it. Admitting that the payees had a discretion to sue, either in their private or representative capacity, yet after the death of one, the action must be by the survivor alone, and the executor or administrator of the deceased cannot be joined, but must seek his *129remedy against the survivor, for the share of the deceased. 1st Chitty’s Pleadings, 10; and see 3d. Munford, 513. 1st Wash. 257.

¶3It is therefore evident, that whether the debt be received as due to the payees in their private or representative characters, the action should have been in the name of the survivor alone.

¶4It is the unanimous opinion of the Court that the judgment be reversed.

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