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gambled at various casinos. Sheldon owed $84,000 to casinos at
his death.
In 1981 Sheldon signed a series of documents, dated December
15, 1981, with Crude Associates, purportedly a Florida
partnership. Each of these documents relates to State Coal
Venture, hereinafter sometimes referred to as State Coal. One
document, entitled "Second Sublease", purports to obligate
Sheldon to pay $1,600,000 to Crude Associates, by paying $60,000
in cash and $1,540,000 in a promissory note on or before December
30, 1981; the document further purports to require Sheldon to
make a $40,000 principal payment on the note on or before January
31, 1982. The other documents are the promissory note, a
security agreement, an operating agreement, and a first sublease
between Load Associates and Crude Associates. Sheldon is named
in, and he signed, each of these documents except for the first
sublease. Nancy is not named in, and did not sign, any of these
documents. Nancy did not see any of these documents until late
1986, after Sheldon died. Sheldon made the 1981 payment by three
checks ($25,000, $15,000, and $20,000) and the 1982 payment by
one check ($40,000), all to an escrow account. These checks were
drawn on Sheldon's individual checking accounts at Bankers Trust
and Chemical Bank. See infra table 7. Sheldon made all the
payments that were made on this investment. The entire
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