Opitz v. Hayden

Plaintiff brought suit in the superior court against the administrator of the estate of Spencer E. Anderson, deceased, and in her complaint sought allowance of a creditor’s claim which she previously had filed against the estate, but which the administrator had rejected. The claim was based on the decedent’s promissory note and on a written contract entered into between the plaintiff and the decedent about seven years prior to the latter’s death. The administrator resisted the action in the superior court on the grounds that the above-mentioned instruments were obtained from the decedent…