Watson v. Dickey & Gaston
Watson v. Dickey & Gaston
1 Tapp. Rep. 235
Opinion of the Court
This declaration cannot be supported; you cannot charge an executor in the debet and detinet, for it is not his debt, but that of the testator; neither can you join a defendant in his own right, with an executor who defends in another right, for the same .judgment is not to be rendered against both; the first is answerable de bonis propriis, the latter de bonis testatoris only.
Demurrer sustained.
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