Johnston v. Johnston
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Frank R. Eichelberger, Judge. ■ The plaintiff and appellant instituted suit for divorce against the appellee, and obtained decree. From this there is no appeal. Into the divorce suit was injected the construction and application of an antenuptial contract. The trial court established a lien in favor of the appellee upon land owned by the appellant, for the sum of $1,750, payable at the death of the plaintiff, without interest.
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Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Frank R. Eichelberger, Judge. ■ The plaintiff and appellant instituted suit for divorce against the appellee, and obtained decree. From this there is no appeal. Into the divorce suit was injected the construction and application of an antenuptial contract. The trial court established a lien in favor of the appellee upon land owned by the appellant, for the sum of $1,750, payable at the death of the plaintiff, without interest. This is the order appealed from.
1Opinion of the CourtSalinger, J.
1. Contracts: construction: reasonableness : ante-nuptial agreements. I. Shortly before the parties were married, they made a writing stipulating that, “for valuable considerations hereby acknowledged and receipted for, and in anticipation of entering into the marriage relation with each other,” it was agreed as follows :(a) The intending husband, “in consideration of the covenants herein contained, and for other valuable consideration,” agrees and does forever relinquish and disclaim any interest which he might obtain through or by his said *483marriage in a certain farm described, and in…
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