White v. Bigelow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in this court, for the recovery of property conveyed by the plaintiff’s intestate to the first named defendant. Allen, J. dismissed the bill; and the plaintiff appealed to the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was submitted on briefs in January, 1891, and after-wards, in June following, was submitted on the same briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff brings this bill, “ as he is administrator of the estate” of his deceased wife, for his own benefit as her husband, and alleges that, before their marriage, “ she, for the purpose of inducing him to marry her, informed him of the amount and value of her estate, and promised and agreed with him that, if he would marry her, he should thereupon and thereby be the owner of all of her said estate, with the privilege on her part of retaining the management and possession of the same for and during her natural life, for his and her benefit, and *594the benefit of his son Eugene ”; and that…
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