Case Name: Nathan Grout, Administrator, versus Enoch Chamberlin
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1808-11
Citations: 3 Tyng 613
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nathan Grout, Administrator, versus Enoch Chamberlin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 537–538

Head Matter:
Nathan Grout, Administrator, versus Enoch Chamberlin.
A judgment recovered by an executor is no bar to an action brought by the administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexa for the same cause.
This was an action of debt on the bond of the defendant, upon which the judgment referred to in the preceding case between these parties was rendered.
The defendant pleaded the former judgment in bar. The plaintiff demurred to the plea, and the defendant joined in demurrer.

Opinion:
Curia.
We are of opinion that the plea is bad, because a judgment recovered by an executor cannot be executed by the adminis trator de bonis non cum testamento annexa, but is become ineffectual, and the second administrator may maintain a new action.
For the authorities in this case, we refer to the opinion of the Court in the case of Grout vs. Chamberlin, in Error; the two cn»es resting for decision on the same principles,
[Vide note to Grout vs. Chamberlin, ante. Ed.]