Passmore v. Estate of Passmore

Tbe claimant in tbe year 1882 presented for allowance against tbe estate of ber late busband a note given by bim to bis son Lewis Passmore, September 5,1870, for tbe sum of four hundred dollars. Tbe evidence tended to show that tbe maker once paid and took up tbe note, and afterwards dehvered it to bis wife upon the temporary loan of the sum specified in it. Tbe claim was contested as baseless, and tbe questions of fact to which attention was mainly directed on tbe trial were, whether tbe claimant bad rightfully come in possession of tbe note, and whether an endorsement of twenty dollars…