Truitt v. Truitt's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

— Reversing.

Mrs. Bessie O’Nan Truitt, widow of J. T. Truitt, filed a petition in equity to recover her distributable share of his estate. It is against the administrator and his three children and their respective wives and husband. The estate was appraised at about $45,000, of which $24,000 is personalty.

The defendants denied the plaintiff was entitled to any part of the estate and alleged that there was an ante-nuptial agreement between her and her late husband by which each relinquished his or her right to participate in the estate of the other.…