77 Iowa 506 | Iowa | 1889
It is averred in the statement of claim that the plaintiff is a resident of the state of Massachusetts, and that, in the. year 1880, D. B. Knight, deceased, by certain false and fraudulent representations, and by an oral guaranty, induced the plaintiff to purchase of him three bonds, in the sum of one thousand dollars each, issued by the Independent school district of Riverside, in Lyon county, Iowa; that said bonds were void and of no value, but that plaintiff had no knowledge nor information that said bonds were invalid until after the death of said Knight. It appears
“Fifth. And your petitioner, for cause of her failure to file her claim before this term of court, says that she did not know that such claims were required by the laws of Iowa to be filed within' one year of the date of publication of notice of the appointment of the administratrix; but, on the contrary, she was informed by an attorney at law in Massachusetts, with whom she counseled early in the year 1886, that two years were allowed for the proof of such claims; and she believed such information to be true; and, further, she could not then afford to employ counsel, and prosecute the claim. She heard of the appointment of administratrix about April, 1886; and, by letter to said administratrix, gave actual notice of claim to administratrix as early as the month of April, 1886, or thereabouts. Sixth. That said Fannie A. Y. Knight has been qualified and is acting as administratrix of said estate; that said estate is solvent and is not yet settled; and that your petitioner's claim made herein is just and equitable.”
Affirmed.