Supreme Court of Vermont March 15, 1841 (Roys v. Roys)

*547The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bennett, J.

It is a principle of the common law that if a person, without any authority from the deceased, or the ordinary, does such acts as belong to the office of an executor or administrator, where there is no rightful executor or administrator, he makes himself an executor in his own wrong, and subjects himself to all the hazards and liabilities