Crawler Parts, Inc. v. Hill

ROBERTSON, Justice,

for the Court:

This appeal presents the question whether a claim against a decedent’s estate should have been disallowed without an evi-dentiary hearing on grounds that enforcement of the claim would violate the statute of frauds. Appellee Executrix contends that the claim seeks to charge the decedent’s estate with the debt of another absent a writing signed by the decedent during his lifetime. Claimant in no way challenges the rule of law for which Executrix contends. Rather, Claimant charges that the debt was the deceased’s, not anyone elses. Claimant argues that the debt…