Case Name: Faxon & Company v. Dyson's Administrators
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1807-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 441
Docket Number: 
Parties: Faxon & Company v. Dyson’s Administrators.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 441–442

Head Matter:
Faxon & Company v. Dyson’s Administrators.
A promise by an administrator to pay in consideration of assets, will support a judgment de bonis testatoris.'
The declaration stated that, in consideration of assets, the defendants promised to pay as administrators, &c. General demurrer.
Mr. Youngs, for the defendant,
contended that the undertaking was personal, and ought not to be charged as made by them as administrators. The judgment will not bind the estate of the intestate. The judgment in this case must be of the defendant’s own goods. No admission or promise of an administrator can bind the estate, so that judgment can go against the goods of the intestate.
Mr. E. J. Lee, for the plaintiffs,
cited Atkins v. Hill, Cowper, .284, and Hawkins v. Saunders, 1 H. BI. 102, 103, 112.

Opinion:
Demurrer overruled. Judgment for the plaintiffs, de bonis testa-toris.