Simon v. Pine Bluff Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court; Antonio B. Grace, Judge; STATKMKNT BY THR COURT. The following note was duly exhibited to the Pine Bluff Trust Company, administrator of the estate of Wiley Jones, deceased, as a demand against his estate after the end of one ■ year from the grant of letters of administration thereon.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court; Antonio B. Grace, Judge; STATKMKNT BY THR COURT. The following note was duly exhibited to the Pine Bluff Trust Company, administrator of the estate of Wiley Jones, deceased, as a demand against his estate after the end of one ■ year from the grant of letters of administration thereon. “$10,000,00 Pine Bluff, Airlc., Sept. 15, 1885. “For value received, I promise to pay to Miss Henrietta Simon, her heirs or assigns, the sum of ten thousand dollars, ($10,000), cash out of my estate after death, and ¡hereby bind my executor to pay the above sum at once after…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts.) It is claimed by appellee that the note does not constitute such a demand against the estate of Wiley Jones as the statute requires to be authenticated and exhibited to the administrator within two years after fhe grant of letters, and that it was such a contingent claim as the probate court had no right or authority to allow against said estate.
The statute divides all demands against the estates of deceased persons into five classes, putting in the fourth “all demands without regard to quality which shall be exhibited, properly authenticated, within one…
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