Megginson v. Megginson

By this appeal the validity of an ante-nuptial contract is presented for determination.

Pertinent facts disclosed by the pleadings and evidence are as follows: Ralph W. Megginson, a widower, owned two farms consisting of one hundred acres and eighty-six acres, respectively, east of Woodson, in Morgan county. Of these, he had acquired the larger one by inheritance from his father, and the other by purchase. Megginson lived on one of the farms when he met Mabel Thies in Jacksonville in the fall of 1919. On April 17, 1920, they became engaged to marry. More than nineteen months later, namely, on…