Executors, administrators, and temporary administrators may commence and prosecute any personal action whatever, at law or in equity, which the testator or intestate might have commenced and prosecuted. They shall also be liable to be sued in any court in any personal action which might have been maintained against the deceased.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-233
What actions survive to executor or administrator
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 608 So. 2d 1149 - Flight Line, Inc. v. Tanksley (1992)
Most recently applied in Mississippi Valley Silica Company, Inc. v. Dorothy Barnett (August 2016)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (111); 1857, ch. 60, art. 119; 1871, § 1176; 1880, § 2078; 1892, § 1916; 1906, § 2091; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1758; 1930, § 1712; 1942, § 609.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.