Buttlar v. Buttlar
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Pitney, who delivered the following opinion: The bill in this cause is filed by a wife against her husband to recover certain arrears of an annuity secured to her by his personal covenant under seal. That document is dated January 31st, 1894, and provided for the payment of $75 a month, commencing with the following month, but not mentioning any period that it should continue.
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On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Pitney, who delivered the following opinion: The bill in this cause is filed by a wife against her husband to recover certain arrears of an annuity secured to her by his personal covenant under seal. That document is dated January 31st, 1894, and provided for the payment of $75 a month, commencing with the following month, but not mentioning any period that it should continue. Payments under it were made and all pecuniary matters settled between the parties up to the-1st day of May, 1895. Six more payments, to October, 1895, inclusive, were…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Vredenburgh, J.
The bill prays the enforcemont of an agreement between the parties, of which the following is a copy :
*650“This indenture made this thirty-first day of January, A. D. eighteen hun., dred and ninety-four, between Christian Buttlar, of the town of West Hoboken in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, party of the first part, ancf Mina Buttlar of the same place, party of the second part.
“ Whereas divers disputes and unhappy differences have arisen between 010 said party of the first part and his said wife, for which reason they have…
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