Russell's Estate

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 136
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 246

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Promissory notes — Statute of limitations — Evidence.</p> <p>The orphans’ court will allow the payment of a promissory note due more than six years by the decedent prior to his death, where a niece of the claimant testifies that within the six years she met the decedent and that he paid to her for her aunt a sum of money which he stated was interest on a note, which was of the same amount as the note for which payment was claimed; but a claim will not be allowed for another debt not evidenced by a note merely because the decedent had stated to the neice in paying her a small sum of money that it was interest on a sum which another person had from her aunt, without there being any evidence to show that the decedent had in his hands at the time of his death a definite sum due to the claimant on account of any transaction with any other person.</p>