Imlay v. Huntington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, brought by William E. Imlay and Lucretia W. Imlay, his wife, and William against Hezekiah Huntington, making also James Morgan and John Morgan parties defendants; praying for a discovery and the specific execution of an agreement by indenture, particulary set forth, as nearly as it could be done.
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This was a bill in chancery, brought by William E. Imlay and Lucretia W. Imlay, his wife, and William against Hezekiah Huntington, making also James Morgan and John Morgan parties defendants; praying for a discovery and the specific execution of an agreement by indenture, particulary set forth, as nearly as it could be done. The bill averred, that said Huntington, in the year 1827, received, in right of Sarah, then his wife, under the will of her grand-father, James Morgan, deceased, the sum of 37,000 dollars, in money and stocks, and under the will of her aunt, Mary Morgan, the sum of 23,000…
1Opinion of the CourtStores, J.
The only question presented to us, in this case, respects the liability of one of the defendants, Mr. Huntington, to a decree for the payment of the moneys received by him under the wills of the grand-father and aunt of his wife, and which, by the terms of the ante-nuptial agreement between Mr. and Mrs. H., were to be paid over by him to the defendants, John and Janies Morgan, as her trustees. No decree is claimed against those trustees, and they, therefore, may be laid out of the case as defendants.
1. That agreement was not, as claimed by the plaintiffs, a marriage settlement, technically so…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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