In Re Houser's Estate

I respectfully dissent. It is a well-established rule that proof of the terms of an oral contract to devise or bequeath must be clear, satisfactory, and unequivocal. Dunbier v. Stanton, 170 Neb. 541, 103 N. W. 2d 797; Gerdes v. Omaha Home for Boys, 166 Neb. 574, 89 N. W. 2d 849; McLaughlin v. Heath, 164 Neb. 511, 82 N. W. 2d 533; Drew v. Hawley, 164 Neb. 141, 82 N. W. 2d 4; Wyrick v. Wyrick, 162 Neb. 105, 75 N. W. 2d 376; O’Neal v. First Trust Co., 160 Neb. 469, 70 N. W. 2d 466; Eagan v. Hall, 159 Neb. 537, 68 N. W. 2d 147.

There was no proof of mutual assent, of a meeting of the minds, of the…