Hilton v. McNitt

This is an appeal from a judgment allowing and establishing a creditor’s claim for $7,500 filed by Ruth M. Hilton against the estate of her deceased husband, Hal H. Hilton, based on a property settlement agreement entered into between them and on an award made in an interlocutory decree of divorce. The executor of the husband’s estate, Rollin L. McNitt and the claimant both appeal. Mrs. Hilton’s appeal is only on the denial of interest on her claim.

The major point involved on this appeal is the effect of the 1951 amendment to section 139 of the Civil Code. The portion of that amendment here…