Milner Bank & Trust Co. v. Estate of Whipple

Plaintiff in error is a corporation doing a banking business at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and is the owner and holder of two promissory notes, each for the principal sum of $300.00, one dated October 25 and the other November 3rd. 1909, signed by Lucy Y. A. Whipple and her husband. Except as to date and time of payment, the one being payable on demand and the other in four months, the notes are alike. There is no dispute as to the execution and delivery of the notes. Mrs. Whipple died on the 27th day of November, 1909, and the notes were filed as claims against her estate in September,…