In Re Estate of Hargreaves

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kaul, J.:

Appellee, Marlin E. McCabe, commenced this action by filing a petition in probate court for the allowance of a demand against the estate of George W. Hargreaves, deceased. The petition was based on an alleged oral agreement. Appellee alleged that Hargreaves, while in the hospital in the summer of 1956, agreed to give $5,000 to appellee if he would remain in Hargreaves’s employment in his lumberyard until Hargreaves died or the lumberyard was sold. The probate court allowed McCabe’s demand and Clyda D. Hargreaves, executrix of the estate of…