McCan v. First National Bank of Portland

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

This action is brought by the widow and principal beneficiary of a deceased testator who named defendant as executor. The estate was administered by proceedings regularly brought and maintained in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Multnomah County, Department of Probate. The defendant was duly and regularly designated as executor by order of that court after the will had been probated by judicial hearing in that court.

The basis of this action against the executor personally is the claim that it negligently conducted the administration and specifically…