MATTER OF ESTATE OF POPE

No. 72180.

808 P.2d 640 (1990)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF H. Everett POPE, Jr., Deceased. TULSA PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION SERVICES, INC., Appellant, v. Joanne POPE, Executrix of the Estate of H. Everett Pope, Jr., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall E. Rose, Naylor & Williams, Inc., Tulsa, for appellant.

Phillip K. Smith, Smith and Smith, Tulsa, for appellee.


OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

Two issues are tendered for our decision in this second appeal from denial of a hospital's quest that payment be ordered for the decedent's last illness expenses without a timely statutory creditor's claim:2 [1] Does Oklahoma law charge the estate representative with knowledge that the hospital where the decedent died as a paying patient was a potential creditor of the...

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