Besse v. Pellochoux

In 1850, at the residence of the parties in Switzerland, appellant entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with Marie Elizabeth Pellochoux, whom he afterwards married. It was executed and attested with all the usual formalities, and was doubtless valid by the laws of the canton where it was made.

The three principal paragraphs are as follows:

“ 1st. The future husband associates and renders his future wife partaker of half the property acquired during their marriage.

“ 2d. The furniture of the contracting parties once inherited and inventoried, will be confounded and divisible into two equal…