Case ID: dc_1/html/0206-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Baysand v. Lovering & Wife, as Executrix de son tort of Andrew White.
    An executor, de son tori, is liable for tlie value of the goods taken and used.
    Assumpsit on bill of exchange; pleas never executrix, non assumpsit, and limitations.
    
      Mr. Mason for the defendant.
    
      Mr. Morsell for the plaintiff.
   The Court

instructed the jury that if they should be of opinion that the defendant took the goods of the deceased and used them as her own, and not for safe keeping, she is chargeable as executrix in her own wrong to the amount of the goods so used.