Kline v. Kline
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county: To January Term 1868. Tbis was an issue between Samuel Kline and Dillman Bean, plaintiffs, and Ann Kline, defendant, directed -by the Orphans’ Court to try the validity of a marriage contract between the defendant and Gabriel Kline, now deceased. After Kline’s death in 1867, his-heirs interposed the contract as a bar to Mrs. Kline’s claim for a share of his estate as widow.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county: To January Term 1868. Tbis was an issue between Samuel Kline and Dillman Bean, plaintiffs, and Ann Kline, defendant, directed -by the Orphans’ Court to try the validity of a marriage contract between the defendant and Gabriel Kline, now deceased. After Kline’s death in 1867, his-heirs interposed the contract as a bar to Mrs. Kline’s claim for a share of his estate as widow. On the trial before Chapman, P. J., the plaintiffs gave in evidence the contract, dated March 21st 1850, between Gabriel Kline of the first part, Ann Hendricks of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Shaeswood, J.
Upon a question arising in the Orphans’ Court as to the right of the widow of Gabriel Kline to any share of his. éstate, an issue was directed to try the validity of an antenuptial contract between her and the intestate, dated March 21st 1850, by which it seems to have been assumed that she had by anticipation renounced or released all her rights as widow. Whether the instrument does bear that meaning is a question which does not arise on this record, has not been argued, and upon it, we desire to be understood, there is no opinion either…
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