Lee v. Hollister

Barr, D. J.

This is a suit brought by the assignee in bankruptcy of Hudson Hollister to set aside two conveyances made to his wife, Mary H. Hollister, in January, 1874.

The facts proven in the record are briefly these:

Mary McConnell married Hudson Hollister on the tenth of June, 1850. Her father was then dead, and she had inherited one-fifth of his estate, consisting of land, negroes, and some money, estimated to be worth $50,000.

There was no antenuptial agreement; but it is clearly proven that Hudson Hollister, before he received any part of his wife’s estate, promised her that if she would…