West v. Walker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the-Circuit Court for Portage County. Action to recover dower, possession of the homestead, and tbe plaintiff’s lawful share of the personal estate of her deceased husband. The facts are stated in the opinion. The post-nuptial agreement therein referred to was as follows : “ This agreement made this 16th day of March, 1886, between Calvin West, party of the first part, and Elizabeth West, party of the second part, all of Portage county, Wis.
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APPEAL from the-Circuit Court for Portage County. Action to recover dower, possession of the homestead, and tbe plaintiff’s lawful share of the personal estate of her deceased husband. The facts are stated in the opinion. The post-nuptial agreement therein referred to was as follows : “ This agreement made this 16th day of March, 1886, between Calvin West, party of the first part, and Elizabeth West, party of the second part, all of Portage county, Wis. “ Witnesseth: That the said parties are man and wife, and that they have agreed what the said party of the second part shall be paid in full…
1Opinion of the CourtObtoh, J.
The facts of this case are substantially as follows: On the 19th day of October, 1882, one Calvin West, a widower, and the father of several children, at the age of eighty-five years, then residing in Walworth county, in this state, and the owner of a half section of land in section ‘25, township 1, range 15 E., lying in said county, intermarried with the plaintiff, then one Elizabeth Butler, a widow, and twice before married, and the mother of at least one child, then being in said county, and of the age of sixty-one years, and for a time they lived in the house and on the homestead of the…
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