Mathews Realty Co., Inc. v. Dennis

MADDOX, Justice.

Olin G. Fields died in 1987, and his will was probated on January 8, 1988. Notice to possible creditors of the six-month period for filing claims was published in a local newspaper in accordance with Ala.Code 1975, § 43-2-61. The estate was settled on August 5, 1988. On September 9, 1988, Mathews Realty Company, Inc., was notified of the probate of Fields’s will; Mathews Realty was the holder of a promissory note executed by Fields, and it notified the probate court of its claim and asked the court to set aside its order of final settlement of the estate. Mathews Realty…