Bradley v. Saddler
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bill of exceptions. Practice in the Supreme Court. Practice in the Superior Court. Husband and wife. Marriage articles. Statute of frauds. Laws. Construction of statutes. Title. Equity. Statute of limitations. Abatement. Before Judge Pottle. Hart Superior Court. March Term, 1875. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
This is a bill brought by Mrs. Saddler and her children against her husband James K. Saddler for the specific performance of an ante-nuptial parol contract made in 1860. The bill alleges, in substance, that complainant was a widow with two children, possessed of a conside rable estate, real and personal, and that defendant agreed, if she would marry him, “he would, at some convenient season, shortly after the marriage, execute and deliver proper marriage articles, to convey and make sure” the property to her and her children, after the use thereof to himself for life; that…
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