Estate of White

SCOLNIK, Justice.

Wilbur H. White, the eldest son of Orrin E. White, Sr., and the duly appointed personal representative of his father’s estate, appeals from a decision of the Washington County Probate Court. That court held that an ante-mortem oral agreement between the decedent and another son, Orrin E. White, Jr. and his wife Beatrice White was valid and entitled to post-mortem recognition, and awarded $12,500 to the claimants. The personal representative contends that the Probate Court applied an incorrect standard of proof in finding that the evidence supported the existence of an…