Ortel v. Gettig

The executor of the estate of Henry Gettig appeals from a decree in favor of Gettig’s widow declaring a prenuptial agreement dated April 7, 1937, between Gettig and the appellee (then Cora A. M. Gebauer) to be null and void.

This agreement recited that it was intended that a marriage between the parties was “shortly to be solemnized” and it provided for the mutual relinquishment of rights in each other’s property, so that after the marriage each party might enjoy and dispose of his or her property by deed or will as if the marriage had not taken place. It further contained .provisions by which…