An executor, administrator, or temporary administrator may maintain any action or suit which shall accrue to him in the due course of administration, on any contract which he is authorized to make as such, or for the recovery of personal property, or for injuries thereto.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-231
Actions which accrue in administration
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 586 So. 2d 775 - Wirtz v. Switzer (1991)
Most recently applied in Tolbert v. Southgate Timber Co. (November 2006)
Codes, 1857, ch. 60, art. 119; 1871, § 1176; 1880, § 2081; 1892, § 1920; 1906, § 2095; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1762; 1930, § 1711; 1942, § 608.
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