Wenninger v. Mitchell
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Schuyler Circuit Court. — Eon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. Contracts, the consideration of which is the procurement of marriage, are void. Anson on Contracts, p. 247; 9 Cyc. 518; Lawson on Contracts, sec. 321; 2 Pomeroy’s Eq.
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Appeal from the Schuyler Circuit Court. — Eon. Nat. M. Shelton, Judge. Contracts, the consideration of which is the procurement of marriage, are void. Anson on Contracts, p. 247; 9 Cyc. 518; Lawson on Contracts, sec. 321; 2 Pomeroy’s Eq. Juris., sec. 931; 2 Parsons on Contracts (5 Ed.), 74; 3 Addison on Contracts, sec. 1349; In re Grobe, 102. N. W. 804; Helen v. Anderson, 33 111. App. 506; Jangraw v. Perkins, 76 Yt. 127, 104 A. S. R. 917. The contract, though executed, will be set aside and the parties restored to their original position. Duval v. Wellman, 124 N. Y. 156; Place v. Conklin, 51…
1Opinion of the Court
ELLISON, J. —
Plaintiff instituted this action by filing a bill in equity praying for dissolution of a partnership with defendants and for an accounting. The case was referred to a referee who took the evidence brought forward by the parties and made his finding for the plaintiff. Exceptions were taken to his report, which the court sustained and entered a judgment for the defendants.
It appears that plaintiff was a widow and that her name was Skinner. That her husband died in 1905, and that afterwards, in the latter part of the summer or' early fall of 1906, she returned to Queen City,…
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