Van Pelt, Exr. v. King

Bert Van Pelt, as executor of Edwin Gr. Cox, brought his action to recover on two promissory notes made and delivered to the testator by Frank L. King and Mildred King. The defendants answered that “said Edwin Gr. Cox, being sick of chronic diarrhea, almost blind, and upwards of 82 years of age, having made arrangements to go to a hospital for medical treatment for said malady, on or about the - day of July, 1922, then gave and delivered said note, together with another note, to said defendant Mildred King with these words, ‘ These notes are yours; I give them to you; I may ask you for them,…