Suitable

1. Proper, competent, fit in a legal vievr: as, a suitable person for administering an estate.' Unsuitable. May imply no want of capacity, but unfitness arising out of the relation of the person to the estate, either from being indebted to it or having claims upon it, 1 Nichols V. United States, 7 Wall. 18S (18GS). » Memphis, &0. R. Co. v. Tennessee, 101 U. S. 339-40 (1879); South & North Alabama B. Co. v. Alabama, ib. 831 (1879). s Scott u Jones, 5 How. 377 (1817), cases. < Newton v. Commissioners, 100 U. S. 580 (1879), cases; Davis V. Gray, 16 Wall. 220 (1878), cases; United States V. Lee, 106 U. S. 198 (1883;. 'New Hampshire v. Louisiana, and New York v. Louisiana, 108 U. S. 77, 91 (18S3), cases, Waite, C. J. 'Exp. Ayers, Scott, and Me Cabe, 123 U. S. 443, 483 (1887), Matthews, J., reviewing previous cases; Harlan, J., dissenting. See generally United States v. Lee, 103 U. S. 205-22 (1882), cases- Clark v. Barnard, 108 id. 417 (18S3); Virginia Coupon Cases, 114 id. 287-88 (183,j), cases; Hagood V. Southern, 117 id. 69 (1886), cases; Baltimore, &c. E. Ck). V. Allen, 17 F. E. 171 (1883); ib. 189-97, oases. On compelling a State to pay its debts, see 18 Am. Law Rev. 625 (1878); 15 id. 519 (IBSl); 7 South. Law Eev. or from his interest under a will, Or frpm his situation as heir at law.' 2. A " suitable " bridge or railroad viaduct may mean such structure'as, in the opinion of the proper officer or board, is required for the safety and convenience of the public and the interests of a particular corporation or corporations.^ Under a statute authorizing a town to take land for a public cemetery without the owner's consent, " when land cannot be obtained in any suitable place at a reasonable price by contract, " the most suitable land may be taken. What is a suitable place is a question of fact to be determined on a consideration of all the circumstances. The term is a relative one. The legislature meant the most suitable place, or a place as suitable as any other, or a place as suitable as the town can afford to pay for.'

An act authorizing letters to be granted to a suitable person, means proper, competent person, — one suitable in a legal view. Peters u. Public Administrator, 1 Bradf. 200. A suitable bridge, in an act providing for a railroad viaduct, means such a bridge as, in the judgment of the board of railroad commissioners, the safety and convenience of the public and the interests of the railroad corporations require. Worcester v. Kailroad Comm'rs, 113 Mass. 161.