Hill v. Hill
Court of Chancery of Delaware
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Chancellor.
The action is one to enforce a pre-nuptial agreement which a surviving wife says she honored and her husband did not before he died.
A
Plaintiff is Sara Gideon Hill, widow of Harry Murdock Hill. Defendants are the residuary legatees and devisees under Mr. Hill’s will and the beneficiary of insurance policies on his life: his mother, Anna Mary Hill, his sister, Ruth M. Huhn, and his brother, Thomas Wallace Hill. All defendants have moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that it fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
Plaintiff alleges that she and Mr. Hill…
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