Kirkpatrick v. Reese

This is an appeal from tbe action of tbe probate court in denying a $1,500 claim filed by tbe appellant against the estate of her deceased stepmother, Addie Pittman. The theory of the claim is that Mrs. Pittman’s negligence resulted in the destruction of a tenant house on land which the appellant had gratuitously leased to Mrs. Pittman. The appellee, as administratrix, disallowed the claim, and the probate court upheld the disallowance.

The appellant’s father died in 1935, survived by his widow and four children by a former wife. In order to provide an income for their stepmother the children…