Estate of Sternberg v. Sternberg

— Decree unanimously affirmed, with *1011costs. Memorandum: On June 15, 1977, one year after decedent’s death, respondent, decedent’s son, testified in a Florida divorce action that at the time of his purchase of a home four or five years earlier he had borrowed $100,000 from his father and that the loan remained unpaid and was a “debt to the estate”. In this proceeding, petitioners, executors of the estate of respondent’s father, seek to recover the amount of the alleged loan. At trial petitioners offered into evidence respondent’s testimony in the Florida action as proof of the outstanding debt.…