Cook v. United States National Bank

1. In order to recover in this proceeding claimant must show by satisfactory and convincing evidence, first, that at the time of the death of Dr. Fisher, claimant had a complete subsisting contract with deceased; second, that he and his cobeneficiary had complied with all the stipulations therein prescribed by the contract to be performed by them; third, that deceased breached the contract; and fourth, that damage resulted from such breach. All these facts must be evidenced by some corroborating evidence other than that of the claimant.

Outside of the fact that there was an exchange of…