SOCIEDAD DE LIZARRAGA HERMANOS, plaintiffs-appellants,
vs. FELICISIMA ABADA ET AL., defendants-appellants.
Charles C. Cohn for plaintiff and appellant
Crossfield & O'Brien for defendants and appellants.
SYLLABUS
1. EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS; EXPENSES. — The expenses
of administration should be those necessary for the management of the property, for protecting it against destruction or deterioration, and possibly for the production of fruits; but the sum expended by an administrator of an extensive administration of the estates of the decedent can not be considered "expenses of administration." 2. MORTGAGES. — That the state grants no power to an administrator to borrow money upon a mortgage of the real estate of the decedent is not controverted. Indeed, such an act would be contrary to the policy and purposes of the administration which aims to close up, and not to continue an estate. 3. ID.; APPROVAL BY THE COURT. — Although the mortgage was one made by the administrator and approved by the Court of First Instance, still this approval can not render valid the void acts of an administrator.
DECISION
MOIR, J : p
This case is before the court on appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment of