Kennedy v. Lyke’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. ““As the same statute existed in the Code of 1896 (section 133), it was construed as not applicable to claims presented personally to the representative. Peevey, Adm’x, v. F. & M. Nat. Bank, 132 Ala. 82 , 31 South. 466 . But the original statute was changed in the Code of 1907 by interpolating the words ‘to the executor or administrator,’ so as to extend the application of verification requirements to both methods of presentation; evidently for the purpose of meeting and overcoming the effect of the decision in the Peevey Case (February, 1902). * * * As amended by the present Code (section 2593), we see no rational escape from the conclusion that claims, as well as statements of claims, must be verified as directed by the statute, by whichever mode they may be ‘presented.’ The plain language of the law requires it, and we are bound to give it the effect intended, whatever may be the hardships inflicted in particular cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. N. L. Carpenter & Co. v. Naftel