In re Estate of Evanovich

OPINION

MANDERINO, Justice.

Appellant, Geraldine Evanovich, executrix of the estate of Joseph R. Evanovich, appeals from a final decree which allowed a $16,000.00 claim against the estate by appellee, Frank Evanovich, brother of the decedent.

The claim allowed was based on a debt evidenced by a bond which had been executed in 1961 in conjunction with a mortgage recorded on property of the decedent. Although in 1969 the claimant signed a marginal entry of satisfaction on the recorded mortgage, the trial court concluded that that entry was not intended to satisfy the underlying debt which had not…