Regents of University v. Gray

The above-named decedent borrowed from the Regents of the University of California February 28, 1889, forty-seven thousand dollars, and executed to that body his promissory note therefor and a mortgage upon certain real property to secure its payment. After his death a claim was presented to the administrator of his estate on behalf of the Regents, setting out the promissory note and the amount due thereon, and this claim was allowed by the administrator September 13, 1894, for the sum of fifty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents, and on September 23,…