Several promisees must each maintain bis own action; and cannot join in a common action.1 On the death of one of two or more several promisees, bis rights pass to bis legal representatives and not to the remaining promisees.2

Mar. (Ky.) 33; 20 Am. Dec. 203; Wiggin v. Tudor, 23 Pick. (Mass.) 434; Eastman v. Wright, 6 Pick. (Mass.) 316.

2 Phillips v. Clagett, 11 M. & W. 84; Piersons v. Hooker, 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 68; 3 Am. Dec. 467.

3 Upjohn v. Ewing, 2 O. S. 13. 4 Piercy v. Fynney, L. R. 12 Eq.

69; Skaife v. Jackson, 3 Barn. & C. 421.

1Hall v. Leigh, 8 Cranch (U. S.) 50; Curry v. Ry., 58 Kan. 6; 48 Pac. 579; Rorabacher v. Lee, 16 Mich. 169; Geer v. School District, 6 Vt. 76.

2 Carthrae v. Brown, 3 Leigh (Va.) 98.