holding after remand that where executrix knew that hospital was providing care to decedent in his last illness, hospital was an identifiable creditor entitled to be furnished with actual notice
How later courts described this case
- holding after remand that where executrix knew that hospital was providing care to decedent in his last illness, hospital was an identifiable creditor entitled to be furnished with actual notice
- An estate representative must use due diligence to identify the decedent’s potential creditors from all available sources at hand. Estate representative who knows of decedent’s last-illness hospital stay is put on notice that the health care provider is likely to stand in the status of a *676 creditor of the decedent's estate.
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
KAUGER, Justice,
concurring:
I dissented in part to the majority opinion in In the Matter of the Estate of Pope, 733 P.2d 396, 401 (Okla.1986), rev’d, 485 U.S. 478 , 108 S.Ct. 1340 , 99 L.Ed.2d 565 (1988) because of the principle expressed in Cate v. Archon Oil Co., Inc., 695 P.2d 1352, 1356 (Okla.1985). I join the majority here for the same reasons.