Connor v. Stanley
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, and from an order refusing a new trial. On the 21st of June, 1882, the plaintiff and one William Jarvis entered into an antenuptial contract, whereby they mutually agreed to marry each other, and which contained a grant to the plaintiff of ten thousand dollars’ worth of the bonds of the Natoma Water and Mining Company, which Jarvis promised to deliver to her on or before the day of their marriage.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, and from an order refusing a new trial. On the 21st of June, 1882, the plaintiff and one William Jarvis entered into an antenuptial contract, whereby they mutually agreed to marry each other, and which contained a grant to the plaintiff of ten thousand dollars’ worth of the bonds of the Natoma Water and Mining Company, which Jarvis promised to deliver to her on or before the day of their marriage. Jarvis died in 1882, having previously refused to marry the plaintiff, and continuing his refusal down to the time of his death.…
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
— The contract on which this action is founded is set out in full on the former appeal. (65 Cal. 184.) It is there said to be valid as an antenuptial contract. The defendant set up as a defense that at the time the alleged contract was made his intestate was insane and incapable of entering into a contract, and that it was procured by the use of undue influence by the plaintiff.
The court found that all the allegations of the complaint were true, except as to the capacity of Jarvis to contract, and that all the affirmative matters set up in the answer were true, except that plaintiff and P. B.…
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