In Re Estate of Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This appeal involves the construction of a prenuptial contract. The only question is whether, by its provisions, the husband renounced his right to inherit under the law of intestate succession a surviving spouse’s undivided one-half interest in the property, in question.

In June, 1930, Susan A. Blanchett and J. H. Johnson were about to be married. He owned certain property in the state of Idaho and she was the owner of a quarter section of real estate in Ford county, Kansas. She had two sons, Joseph and Orville, by a former marriage. On June…