Case Name: BROWN, Adm'r, vs. STRICKLAND
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1859-06
Citations: 28 Ga. 387
Docket Number: 
Parties: BROWN, Adm’r, vs. STRICKLAND.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 387–388

Head Matter:
BROWN, Adm’r, vs. STRICKLAND.
An administrator’s letters are not abated by his removal out of the State.
Trover in Wayne superior court. Tried before Judge Cochran, at February Term, 1869.
This was an action of trover by William M. Brown, as administrator of Aaron Strickland, deceased, against John Strickland, jr., for the recovery of a family of negroes, alleged in the declaration to belong to plaintiff, as administrator aforesaid.
At the trial it appeared and was admitted, that since the commencement of the suit, the plaintiff'had removed from the State, and was now a resident and citizen of the Stare of Florida. Whereupon the court held and decided that plaintiff’s letters of administration abated and determined by his removal from the State, and that the same could not he admitted in evidence in support of his title in this cau#e.
To which, decision counsel for. plaintiff excepted and assigned the same as error.
J. S. Wiggins, and Norwood & Wilson, for plaintiff in error.
,! ,o. L. & B. F. Harris, and T. T. Long, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Stephens, J.,
delivering the opinion.
In the ease of Walker vs. Torrence, reported in 12 Ga. Rep., this court held that an executor's letters were not abated by his removal out of the State. The opinion in that ease ivas well considered, and we are entirety satisfied with it. There being no difference in principle between the case of an executor and that of an administrator in respect to this matter, the judgment below must be .reversed.
Judgment reversed.