Swartz v. Rosenkrans

Defendant in error, plaintiff below, as administratrix of the estate of a deceased person, recovered in trover from defendant, now plaintiff in error, for the value of certain choses in action alleged to have been obtained by divers means from decedent during his life time and con verted by defendant to her own use. Exemplary damages were also awarded. She brings the case here on error.

Counsel for plaintiff in error at the oral argument stated that the sole question to be determined is whether such an action is one that survives to an executor or administrator, and this is all that we shall…