Meyer v. Milliken

The statute in relation to the presentation of claims against estates (’35 C.S.A., chapter 176, section 201), reads as follows: “The manner of exhibiting claims against estates shall be by filing in the county court the account, or instrument of writing, or an exemplification of the record whereon such claim is founded. Formal pleadings shall in no case be required; but the issue shall be formed as in actions before justices of the peace, but heard and determined as in civil actions in courts of record.”

The claim involved here was filed March 2, 1937, and reads as follows: “February 26, 1937.…