Pattison v. Pattison

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Plaintiff brought this action to partition certain real estate devised by her deceased husband to defendants, who were *559his children by a former marriage. The defense to the action was an antenuptial contract between plaintiff and the testator. Plaintiff replied that just prior to her marriage she signed the antenuptial contract without knowing its purport, in reliance on a statement of her affianced husband that it related to the possibility of their subsequent divorce, and—

“That prior to signing her name to said contract she had no…