Stadtfeld Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Judge Joseph Stadtfeld entered into a separation agreement with his wife in 1916 in which he agreed to pay her the sum of $300 per month during her life, this obligation to be released, however, in case he should thereafter create a trust fund for her of $75,000; if he died without creating such fund his executors were to have the right to do so. The wife on her part released her right of d'ower in certain of his real estate and also released and discharged him of any and all obligations which she might claim by reason of their marriage relations. By a…