Case ID: va_12/html/0320-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Barr v. Barr’s Administrator.
    June Term, 1808.
    Executors — When Individually Liable. — A decree, and execution thereupon, against an executor or administrator, for a balance due on his administration account, should not be against the goods and chattels oí the decedent in his hands to be administered, but against his own goods and chattels.
    Same — Same-Cost oí Suit. — In such case an attorney’s iee ought to be taxed.
    A decree had been entered, in this case, against the defendant for the balance reported against him as administrator. An attorney’s fee was taxed. The execution issued against his own goods and chattels, and he gave a forthcoming bond.
    At this term he moved for a bill of review on two grounds: 1. That the decree should have been entered against the goods and chattels of the intestate in his hands to be administered, and not personally against himself; and, 2. That an attorney’s fee should cot have been taxed.
   PER CURIAM.

The object of this suit was not to recover a debt against the intestate, but of the defendant. The decree was therefore correctly entered, and the fee as correctly taxed. Had the suit been for a claim on the intestate, then the decree would have been against his goods and chattels in the hands of the defendant to be administered, and no fee would have been taxed.

Bill of review denied.