Trenouth v. Mulroney

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

Dr. S. M. Trenouth, a physician, brought this action at law against the defendant Thomas E. Mulroney as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Lyde Sehall Buckhouse, deceased, to recover a money judgment of $1,563 on a disallowed creditor’s claim for professional services claimed to have been rendered under a written power of attorney executed by decedent six years prior to her demise.

Plaintiff is associated with a number of other doctors in the practice of medicine at Missoula, Montana, in what is known as the Western Montana Clinic.

On September 30, 1942, the decedent…