Agway, Inc. v. Luce

POMEROY, Justice.

In Maine, by statute (18 M.R.S.A. § 2402), no claim may be maintained against an executor, or administrator of an estate unless the claim is “presented to the executor or administrator in writing or filed in the registry of probate” within six months *149of the qualification of the executor or administrator.1

18 M.R.S.A. § 2656 modifies the absolute bar provision of 18 M.R.S.A. § 2402 as follows:

“If the Superior Court, upon a complaint filed by a creditor whose claim has not been prosecuted within the time limited by sections 2402, 2406 and 2651 to 2655, is of the opinion that…