Freeland v. Freeland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of DOWER by the widow of Freeman Freeland. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the tenants, to this court on appeal, on agreed facts, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSoule, J.
The tenants contend that the demandant’s right to dower was barred by an antenuptial contract between her and Freeman Freeland. That contract was duly executed and recorded, and was made in view of the intended marriage of the parties, and recites and sets forth an agreement that both “ shall retain their respective estates, with such as may hereafter accrue to them, separate and apart from the other, subject to the payment of their respective debts, with power to each to manage and dispose of their estate as they shall see fit, and at their decease to have" the same descend to their…
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