Hamilton v. Coffin

*557The opinion of the court was delivered by

JOHNSTON, J.:

This was an appeal from the decision of the probate court rejecting a demand presented by Dr. A. V. Coffin against the estate of W. T. Hamilton, deceased. The demand was a long account for medicines and medical services running from 1868, and which Coffin claimed was open and unsettled at the time of Hamilton’s death, the occurrence of which is not definitely shown by the record, but must have been about the first of the year 1886. The claim was filed in the probate court on August 27, 1886, and tried in the district court on April…