TABLE OF CASES CITED.

BRITISH AUTHORITIES.

This table is so arranged that the cases may be found by the names of the defendants, as well as plaintiffs. The letter "" follows the name of the plaintiff; the word "and" that of the defendant.

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

OF

VIRGINIA:

At the term commencing in March, 1810.

IN THE THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

JUDGES, WILLIAM FLEMING, ESQUIRE, President.
SPENCER ROANE, Esquire.

ST. GEORGE TUCKER, ESQUIRE.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

PHILIP NORBORNE NICHOLAS, ESQUIRE,

Gordon's Administrators against The Justices of Argued at the

Frederick.

66

October terny, 1809.

It is neces

sary, after a

gainst an executor or administrator,as

IN this case, the decision of the Court, in Braxton v. Winslow, (1 Wash. 31.) was reviewed; doubts having been judgment a entertained whether the position there laid down, that the plaintiff must shew, by an action brought against the such, to esta executor, that he was a creditor, and must prove by an action against the executor and the verdict of a Jury, that he had committed a devastavit," before an action could be maintained on the administration bond, was, under the

blish a devastavit, by means of a second suit, before an ac

tion can be

maintained on

the administration bond.