In re the Estate of French

Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Chemung County which, in a proceeding to determine the validity and effect of the attempted eléetion by testator’s widow to take her share of decedent’s estate as in intestacy (Decedent Estate Law, § 18), held the widow barred from such election by virtue of the provisions of an antenuptial agreement. The agreement was executed by both parties two days before their marriage. The instrument had previously *661been prepared by testator’s attorney, who was also his close friend and a business associate, solely in accordance with testator’s…