Pfeiffer v. Sheffield, Admr.

Jacob Pfeiffer filed, in the Court of Common Pleas of Summit county, a petition, and named as defendant therein Eugene K. Sheffield, administrator of the estate of Kathryn D. Pfeiffer, deceased.

He alleged in a first cause of action that he had made payments totalling $25,627.50 upon a note, for the payment of which his wife, the defendant’s decedent, was liable, under the mistaken belief that he had signed the note himself and was liable for its payment. On this cause of action he prayed for a judgment against the estate for the amount of payments made by him. In a second cause of action he…