Genung v. Hagemann

Plaintiff appeals from a declaratory judgment involving the interpretation of an antenuptial agreement. The trial court, ruling on a motion to strike the complaint, entered its decree and judgment on the merits, interpreting the contract, and holding that the plaintiff was entitled to a life estate in the real estate owned by the decedent and to the proceeds of an insurance policy, but was barred by the antenuptial agreement from inheriting an intestate’s share of decedent’s estate.

The ruling by the trial court admitted the pleaded facts that the decedent and his wife, the plaintiff, had…