Williamson v. Yager
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 53 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. In arriving at the meaning of the antenuptial contract, some effect must be given to every part of it. (Broom’s Legal Maxims, marginal page 522; Peter v. Daniel, 5 O. B., 579; Shep. Touch., mar. p. 87.) 2. The pretended transaction is not supported by either a good or a valuable consideration.
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Case 53 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. In arriving at the meaning of the antenuptial contract, some effect must be given to every part of it. (Broom’s Legal Maxims, marginal page 522; Peter v. Daniel, 5 O. B., 579; Shep. Touch., mar. p. 87.) 2. The pretended transaction is not supported by either a good or a valuable consideration. As to what is necessary to constitute a good consideration, see Mark v. Clark, 11 B. M., 46; Graves v. Graves, 7 B. M., 213; Cotton v. Graham, 84 Ky., 675. 3. There was not an executed, irrevocable qjft of the notes by Mrs. Williamson to…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BENNETT
delivered the oflntoh of the court.
The question is, did the seven notes — two for one thousand dollars each, and five for eight hundred dollars each — pass as a gift from the appellant to the seven appellees, children of Henry C. Yager. The undisputed facts are these: Henry C. Yager was, in his life-time, indebted to his brother, Silas B. Yager, in a large sum ; and after the death of Silas B. Yager, the appellant, being entitled to said indebtedness by the devise of her husband, Silas B. Yager, caused, on the first day of June of 1880, Henry C. Yager to execute new notes to her…
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