Where a party seeks to prove an oral agreement made years earlier without contemporaneous documentary support, the court will apply conventional fact-finding principles including the fallibility of memory, the primacy of contemporaneous documents, and the Briginshaw standard, and the absence of an adverse credibility finding does not compel acceptance of the witness's account.
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