In Re Estate of Curtis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fonrron, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment disallowing the claim of the appellant, Derward O. Lawson (sometimes referred to as Derward), against the estate of Mabel May Curtis, a/k/a May Curtis. The claim is predicated on an alleged oral contract wherein it is claimed the decedent agreed to give Derward, upon her death, a farm near McCracken, Kansas, in return for Derward’s forbearance to file a claim against the estate of Fred Curtis, decedent’s former husband who died in 1951.

The evidence disclosed that claimant was abandoned by his parents early…