Murante v. Rizzuto

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff on a rejected claim against the estate of Concetta Pistelle, deceased, for “funds held by deceased belonging to Mrs. Murante.”

Anna Murante was born in Italy, and is sixty-seven years of age. She married one Pasquale Pistelle, who died in Italy in 1914. The record does not indicate when she came to America, but it does show that her second husband, Michael Angelo Murante, died in New York in 1940.

Frank Pistelle, brother of Anna’s first husband, and his wife, Concetta, owned and operated a farm near Bigelow Gulch, in Spokane county. In…