Richter v. Hanneman

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff has demurred to the defendant’s answer setting up a counterclaim. The action is brought by the executrix of Ludemann to recover the amount of a loan made by Ludemann to the defendant. The answer sets up as a counterclaim a debt owing by Ludemann at the time of his death to Amanda Hanneman, and alleges that before the commencement of the action she died leaving the defendant, who was her husband, and one daughter surviving, and that letters of administration upon the estate of the deceased wife were duly granted to the defendant by the surrogate having…