Lady Washington Consolidated Co. v. Wood

The plaintiff presented a claim against the estate of Seth Cook, deceased, of which the defendant Wood was executor, for the sum of twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty dollars, which on January 15,1890, was allowed by the executor and approved by the judge of the superior court, and filed with the clerk. Thereafter the American Mill and Mining Company, a corporation, offered to the plaintiff to assume •the said indebtedness of said estate, and to execute its promissory note therefor to the plaintiff, payable sixty days after date, and, on October 1, 1890, the board of directors of…