Peters v. Peters

The Chancellor :

The first ground of demurrer is that equity is without jurisdiction because the complainant has a sufficient remedy at law. That the complainant, the wife, could not sue the defendant, her husband, for damages for breach of the contract here sought specifically to be enforced, is conceded by the solicitor for the defendant. Plotkin v. Plotkin, 2 W. W. Harr. (32 Del.) 455, 125 A. 455, settles that proposition so far as the Superior Court can settle it. Where is there then any remedy, not to say any sufficient remedy, at law for the complainant on the contract? The defendant…