Thompson v. Tucker-Osborn
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Lenawee; Lane, J. Bill by Gamaliel I. Thompson, executor of the will of John M. Osborn, deceased, and others, against Sarah A. Tucker-Osborn, for the specific performance of an ante-nuptial contract. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, C. J.
On October 3, 1891, John M. Osborn married the defendant. Mr. Osborn was at this time upwards of the age of 70 years. He had been married twice before; had retired from the banking business some years before; was suffering from a lingering disease. He had, some time before this, submitted to an operation, by which a part of one of his feet had been removed. It was well known by his friends and those associated with him that it was a disease which must prove fatal in the near future, and was known as “senile gangrene.” The defendant had been in Mr. Osborn’s employ as a servant woman and…
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