DuPont v. Moulton

— On November 30, 1915, one Amy M. Bartlett, in consideration of a loan in the sum of *240$20,000 made to her on that day by the appellant, Pierre S. DuPont, executed and delivered to the appellant her promissory note for that sum, securing the same by a mortgage upon certain real property situated in Benton county. Mrs. Bartlett died on October 5, 1920, leaving the note unpaid. She left a will in which she named the respondent M. M. Moulton as executor of her estate. Moulton qualified as such executor, and thereafter the appellant presented to him a claim against the estate in the following form: