Vecchio v. Vecchio

The appellant-executor seeks review and reversal of an adverse final decree which nullified an ante-nuptial agreement.

The agreement was executed in 1946, a few days prior to the marriage of the ap-pellee and appellant’s decedent. The appel-lee was 35 years of age and the deceased was 68. The appellant is the son and only child of the decedent. The deceased, a widower at the time of the marriage, owned an interest with his son in a chain of hardware stores as well as several valuable pieces of real property in the District of Columbia.

The appellee met the deceased in 1939 when she, her mother…