Mullins v. Garthwait

How courts have described this case

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• “Massachusetts General Law chapter 197, §9 (the ‘short statute of limitations’) . . . established that all creditors of a decedent’s estate, regardless of the statute of limitations of the underlying action, file claims within one year of the decedent’s death”
• estate not harmed where executor knew claim would be brought
• no prejudice where estate knew claim would be brought

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).