Administrator
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 284 U.S. 183 - Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. · 1931Most cited · 571 citing opinions
wrongful death statute
The applicable statutes make the administrator the trustee of an express trust and require the suit to be brought and controlled by him.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Administrator”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Administrator” — 678 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1848–1931
- ORIGINAL
An administrator under grant of administration in one State stands in none of these relations to an administrator in another. Each is privy to the testator, and would be estopped by a judgment against him; but they have no privity with each other, in law or in estate. They receive their authority from different sovereignties, and over different property. The authority of each is paramount to the other... Each administrator is severally liable to pay the debts of the deceased out of the assets committed to him, and therein they resemble joint and several co-obligors in a bond.
interstate privity