Stratton's Admrx. v. Farmer

Opinion op the Court by

Judge.Sampson

— Reversing.

If an administratrix who has settled her accounts, paid all the obligations of the estate, delivered all of the residue of the estate to the sole heir and caused her official bond to he cancelled, can institute and maintain an action as administratrix of her decedent to recover money due her intestate upon notes which were in the hands of another as his agent and of which she did not know at the *783time of the settlement of her accounts, then the judgment of the lower court, holding that under such circumstances no action can be maintained by the…