Pearl Hart v. Ross L. Johnston, Administrator of the Estate of Melvin M. Hatley, Deceased

Upon cross-motions for summary judgment, this cause was disposed of by entry of judgment for the defendant, administrator of the estate of Melvin M. Hatley. (Defendant’s original motion for summary judgment was denied; both parties made later motions pursuant to the District Court’s pretrial order.)

Melvin Hatley died owing a substantial debt to the plaintiff, Mrs. Pearl Hart, now a 78 year old lady, who befriended the said Hatley by making him a loan in 1954 to set him up in the business he was operating at the time of his death. The dispute herein arose out of the alleged failure of Mrs.…