If there are two or more persons appointed executor or administrator of the same estate, such parties must give joint or separate bonds, in the discretion of the court. Suit may be brought upon the bond of an administrator or executor when any breach of any condition has occurred. A breach of condition occurs when there has been a devastavit, which is the mismanagement or waste by an executor or administrator of the estate entrusted to him by which a loss occurs. Taking insolvent security, releasing debt, removing property out of the jurisdiction of the State, filing an untrue account, failing to file an inventory within the time fixed by the statute, suffering judgment to be entered upon a claim that is barred,49 failure to account for a debt due from himself to the estate of a decedent, are grounds upon which liability may be fixed in a suit upon the administrator's or executor's bond. One administrator is liable for the acts of the co-administrator.50

47 People vs. Lott et al., 27 Ill., 215. 47a Pinkstaff vs. People, 59 Ill., 148.

48 Branch vs. Rankin, 108 Ill., 44.

49 McCoy vs. Morrow, 18 Ill., 519; Marshall vs. Coleman, 187 Ill., 556.