Towle v. Lovet
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trover for the conversion of a title deed of lands of the plaintiff ’s intestate, of which he died seised, alleged to have been committed in the lifetime of the intestate. The parties agreed on the sum for which judgment should be rendered against the defendant, if the Court should be of opinion that the plaintiff, in her capacity of administratrix, is entitled to recover.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The defendant, although a stranger to the land, having no interest in it, has denied the plaintiff’s right to maintain this action, because the charters of inheritance at common law belong to the heir, and not to the administrator; and whether the plaintiff, in her capacity of administratrix, can or cannot maintain this action, is the question for our decision. And we are satisfied that in this state an administrator can maintain this action.
* It is very properly admitted that, for a conversion [ * 398 ] of the intestate’s goods in his lifetime, trover will lie by his administrator ; and the…
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