Estate of Barrett

AUTHORITY OF ONE OF SEVERAL EXECUTORS OR ADMINISTRATORS.

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At Common Law.—Where two or more executors or administrators are appointed, the common law esteems them as one person representing the decedent. Hence each has authority to perform any act, in the ordinary course of administration, that all can do; the acts of one are deemed the acts of all, and bind all and the estate accordingly, inasmuch as corepresentatives have a joint and entire authority over the assets of their decedent. Each has full authority in matters of administrative detail: Willis v. Farley, 24 Cal. 490 ; Wilkerson v. Wootten, 28 Ga. 568 ; Scruggs v. Gibson, 40 Ga. 511 ; Alerding v. Allison, 170 Ind. 252 , 127 Am. St. Rep. 363 , 83 N. E. 1006 ; Clark’s Exrs. v. Farrar, 3 Mart. (O. S.) 247 ; Bodley v. McKinney, 9 Smedes & M. (17 Miss.) 339; Bank of Port Gibson v. Baugh, 9 Smedes & M. (17 Miss.) 290; Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Sturges, 33 N. J. Eq. 328; Murray v. Blatchford, 1 Wend. 583 , 19 Am. Dec. 537 ; In re Bradley, 25 Misc. Rep. 261 , 54 N. Y. Supp. 555 ; Arkenburgh v. Arkenburgh, 27 Misc. Rep. 760 , 59 N. Y. Supp. 612 ; Chapman v. City Council of Charleston, 30 S. C. 549, 9 S. E. 591 , 3…