Case Name: Morrill et al. vs. Menifee's Administrators
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1844-07
Citations: 5 Ark. 629
Docket Number: 
Parties: Morrill et al. vs. Menifee’s Administrators.
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 629–637

Head Matter:
Morrill et al. vs. Menifee’s Administrators.
The doctrines established in Hill’s administrators, et al., vs. Mitchell et al. ante p. 608, affirmed.
An administrator cannot, as such maintain ejectment against a tenant in possession of lands belonging to the intestate.
This was an action of ejectment, tried in the Conway circuit court in October, 1843, before the Hon. Richard C. S. Brown, one of the circuit judges. Howard and others, as administrators of Nimrod Meni-fee, sued Berger & Morrill for the ^possession of a lot of land in Lewis-burg, alleged in the declaration to have belonged to their intestate, and to which they claimed right of possession generally as his administrators. The court, sitting as a jury, found for plaintiffs, and judgment accordingly. Motion for new trial overruled, exceptions, and appeal. The evidence produced by the plaintiffs was, title in their intestate, and possession by defendant when suit commenced.
The case was argued here by Cummins for appellants, and Linton & Batson, for appellees.

Opinion:
By the court,
Lacy J.
This case falls within the doctrines settled in liilPs administrators, vs. Mitchell et ai., decided at this term, and the judgment below is reversed, because the court, in refusing to grant a new trial, decided that an administrator could maintain an action of ejectment against the tenant in possession.