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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ISAAC AGEE v. SAMUEL BROWN.
    (S. C., Thomp. Cas., 22.)
    Knoxville,
    September Term, 1847.
    
    FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER. Executor cannot revive action of.
    An executor cannot revive the action of forcible entry and detainer commenced by his testator, though the will authorizes him to do so.
    Personal representative cannot maintain the action.
    The personal representative cannot maintain such a suit, though the right of action accrued to his intestate in his lifetime. See Code, sec. 5118, and note 2.
    The executor of a deceased person attempted to revive an action of forcible entry and detainer commenced by his testator in his lifetime by virtue of a clause in the will authorizing him to do so.
   By the Court:

This cannot be done.

Judgment below affirmed.