Sanchez's Administrator v. Hart

This is an action of ejectment. The declaration is in the form prescribed by statute. To the declaration there was a demurrer. The demurrer was sustained. This action is brought by administrators, and the first question presented' by the record is, can an administrator maintain ejectment in this State? It must be admitted that at the common law, except as to lands held for a term of years by the intestate, the general rule was that he could not maintain ejectment; and such, we think, from a rather extended examination, is the rule in most of the States of the Union. It is admitted, however,…