Court Opinion

ID: 9828754
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:41:40.64109+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:52.691036
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The recitation in our original opinion, “The parties themselves likewise so construed the affidavit,” together with its appended résumé of facts, should be qualified by the addition thereto of this further statement, which appears in the agreed statement of facts herein:
“Neither the administrator nor his attorney observed that the words ‘payments and credits’ were omitted from the affidavit attached to the claim, until after the lapse of one year after original grant of letters, and, as soon as the omission was noticed, it was called to the attention of claimant’s attorney. The omission was discovered by the administrator’s attorney in looking over «the claim and the record in respect to same, with the view of determining if the claim could be used to offset the purchase price of the lots secured by the deed of trust, and claimant’s attorney was shortly thereafter advised that the said attorney of the administrator was of the opinion that the allowance of the administrator of the claim, with the only affidavit supporting same omitting the said words, was a nullity, and that the approval of the court of such a claim was a nullity, and that the administrator would not be protected should he in any way pay said claim. The administrator and claimant have at various times endeavored to reach some arrangement which would protect all parties, but without results.”
The motion for rehearing has been carefully considered, but in other respects we are constrained to adhere without change to our original opinion.
Overruled.