Logan v. Whitley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Frederick Kelson Whitley, individually, and as executor, etc., and another, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of July, 1908, upon the decision of the court, rendered after atrial at the Kings County Special Term, overruling the defendants’ demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
On the 19th day of February, 1903, the plaintiff’s intestate, Elizabeth J. Logan, and the defendant’s testator, John Whitley, entered into a contract in contemplation of marriage, which provided that the former, if she survived the, latter, should accept from his estate the sum of $10,000 in lien of dower and of her distributive share of the personal property, and that the latter should hold all the real estate which he then owned, or might thereafter acquire, free from any claim of dower, inchoate or otherwise; in consideration whereof the latter agreed that the former should be *668pa…
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