SHAKA v. SHAKA

No. 80-066.

120 N.H. 780 (1980)

NAPOLEON SHAKA & a. v. JAMES A. SHAKA, EXECUTOR, ESTATE OF ZELLA SHAKA.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig, Wenners, Craig & McDowell, of Manchester (Joseph F. McDowell, III, orally), for Napoleon Shaka.

Burns, Bryant, Hinchey, Cox & Shea, of Dover (James H. Schulte orally), for Joan Aliapoulios.

Brown & Nixon, of Manchester (Frank E. Kenison orally), for the defendant.


GRIMES, C.J.

The question we decide in this equity proceeding is whether the trial judge erred in not setting aside the jury's finding that the testator and her deceased husband had made an oral agreement which bound her to leave her estate to his three children in equal shares. Because the evidence supports the verdict, we affirm.

Athan Shaka was born in Greece in 1876. He came to this country in 1900 but returned to Greece a few years later and married Vasiliky...

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