In Re Estate of Shirk

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from a judgment which found the existence of an oral agreement to provide for a share in an estate, and decreeing specific performance of the agreement against the deceased promisor’s estate.

*425This appeal is another chapter of the protracted litigation following the death of Gertrude McCourt Shirk of McPherson, Kansas. (See Shirk v. Shirk, 186 Kan. 32, 348 P. 2d 840; In re Estate of Shirk, 186 Kan. 311, 350 P. 2d 1; In re Estate of Shirk, 188 Kan. 513, 363 P. 2d 461; Shirk v. Shirk, 190 Kan. 14, 372 P. 2d 556.)

The general…