Meinert v. Snow

Citations

• 3 Idaho 112
• 27 P. 677
• 1891 Ida. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>Bill or Exceptions — Claim Against an Estate — Allowed in Part bv Administrator — Binds Estate — Telegram as Evidence.</p> <p>Bill or Exceptions must be Settled and Signed. — To entitle a bill of exceptions to be considered in this court, it must be settled and signed by the district judge.</p> <p>’Admission of Administrator as to Allowance of a Claim. — The admissions of an administrator, made in the allowance of a claim against an estate, although the claim is only allowed in part, bind the estate.</p> <p>Admission of Telegram as Evidence. — A telegram from P. to M., whom P. had employed to perform certain services, containing these words: “I will leave in about a week direct for the mine”; held, admissible in an action by M. against the administrator of P. for value of services, as tending to prove that the relations of employer and employee existed at the date of telegram'.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>