
    HARTFORD COUNTY,
    SEPTEMBER TERM, A. D. 1790.
    M’Evers v. Pitkin, late Sheriff.
    The administrator not liable for a personal tort or misfeasance of the intestate. '
    AotioN for tbe default of one of bis deputies in not executing and returning a certain writ of execution — pending tbe suit tbe defendant died — tbe plaintiff suggested tbe death upon tbe record and cited in bis administrators, to show reason why judgment should not be rendered against them.
    Tbe administrators appeared and plead in abatement — Tbat this action was for a tort or misfeasance of tbe said William, by one of bis deputies, wbicb was personal and died witb tbe person of the said William, agreeable to the maxim of law, actio personalis moriiur cum persona.
    
   Judgment — ’Plea in abatement sufficient. Cowper, 371, Hamly v. Trot.  