Fairley v. Currie

Citations

• 120 Miss. 400
• 82 So. 267

Syllabus

<p>1. Executors and Administrators. Claim, against estate. Contract Registration.</p> <p>A written agreement by an intestate to pay specified prices for clearing land and plowing and breaking approximately twenty acres of land and for delivering post for the cleared land is not capable of being used as a probated account or claim under Code 1906, section. 734, because the amount of work is not set out in the agreement.</p> <p>2. Executors and Administrators. Registering claim against estate. Allowances.</p> <p>A claim showing the name of the creditor and stating that a specified amount is due for clearing land is properly registered and should be allowed, where its correctness is established by evidence showing the amount of the work and the price per acre is shown by a written agreement signed by deceased, though the agreement alone is not capable of being used as a probated account under Code 1906, sections 734:735, because the amount of work is not set out therein.</p>