Wright v. NeSmith

KENNEDY, Justice.

The defendant, David Wright, appeals from a judgment, entered after a nonjury trial, in favor of the plaintiff, the estate of Mary Helen Patterson as a creditor of the defendant. At trial, Patterson’s estate claimed that Wright had executed a promissory note for $27,500.00, payable to Mary Helen Patterson, and that he had ceased making payments on the promissory note after her death. By a stipulation of the parties, Wright conceded these facts, but he asserted that the loan had been discharged by Patterson and that, therefore, he was neither in arrears nor in default on the…