Achilles v. Achilles

This is a bill filed at the May term, 1890, in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County by the appellee, as the widow of Louis Achilles, deceased, against appellants, as the heirs of said Louis, for the purpose of setting aside an ante-nuptial agreement between the appellee and her deceased husband, and also for partition and for assignment of dower and homestead. The Court below held the agreement void for fraud, and decreed accordingly. From such decree the present appeal is prosecuted.

The deceased was a widower, 77 years old, when the agreement was made, and had no children at that time, nor…