Humphrey v. Huff

Shields, J.; Voorhees and Powell, JJ., concurring.

The action below was brought by the plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, to recover from Alonzo Huff, the defendant in error and defendant below, upon an account for the funeral expenses and costs of burial of the wife of the defendant.

By answer the defendant set up as a defense that he and his wife, Alice Huff, during her lifetime entered into a written contract “to live separate and apart from each other during the remainder of their natural lives, and for the sum of $200 paid by the defendant to .his said wife, and for other satisfactory…