Mahaffy v. Mahaffy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Des Moines District Gourt. The plaintiffs are the children of William Mahaffy, deceased, and the defendant is his' widow.
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Appeal from the Des Moines District Gourt. The plaintiffs are the children of William Mahaffy, deceased, and the defendant is his' widow. This is an equitable action, brought by the plaintiffs to enforce the specific performance of an ante-nuptial contract, entered into, as they allege, between the said William Mahaffy and the defendant, in contemplation of marriage, whereby it was agreed between said parties that, in case she survived said Mahaffy, she should be paid out of his estate the sum of six hundred dollars, with six per cent interest thereon from the date of his death, and that she…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
1. PRACTICE in supreme court: suplemental abstract to present the record as corrected, after appeal, in the court below. I. The first question which we are required to determine is one of practice. The appellee filed an additional abstract, in which it is denied that the ante-nuptial contract, or any copy oi it, was attached to plaintiffs’ petition as an exhibit, or at any time made a part of the pleadings or records of the case in the district court, or that it was offered or inti’od-uoed. in evidenee on tlie trial; and it is claimed by appellee that it does not appear by the record, either…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mahaffy v. MahaffySupreme Court of Iowa · 1883
- Pearson v. MaxfieldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1877
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