Slagle's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Schaffer,
We are called on in this proceeding to pass upon the validity of a postnuptial agreement. When it was entered into appellant was 72 years old, her husband 87. She was his third wife and they had been married six years. He lived for two years after the agreement. She did not repudiate it in his lifetime, but after his death filed an election.to take against his will, which the court below struck off, determining that she was bound by the agreement she had executed. Under it she received from her husband $4,000 in consideration of a full release of her right to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Miller v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
- Kern v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
- Warner's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Bierer's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Tiernan v. BinnsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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- Baker v. BakerCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1940
- Ratony EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Makowski v. MakowskiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
- Estate of Harris GorbackSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
- Inskipt's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
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