Bannon v. Thompson

Plaintiff, who is a regularly admitted and practicing lawyer of Portland, performed legal services for defendant’s testator during several years prior to his death. Plaintiff presented to the executrix a duly verified claim for said services and his claim was rejected in to to. He then presented the claim to the department of probate of the circuit court for Multnomah county pursuant to section 11-504, Oregon Code 1930, which provides, among other things, that:

“ * * # If any executor or administrator shall refuse to allow any claim or demand against the deceased, after the same may have been…