Rankin v. Schiereck
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal .from, Davis District Court. — Hon. Francis M. Hunter, Judge. Action for establishment of plaintiff’s dower right in certain real estate as widow of A. W. Rankin. Defense, an ante-nuptial contract waiving such right. From a decree in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWithrow, J.
I. This action was brought in equity by Nancy E. Rankin; surviving widow of A. W. Rankin, deceased, to admeasure her dower interest in certain real estate owned by him during coverture and at his death, and to which she had made no relinquishment. As a defense it was pleaded that prior to the marriage of plaintiff and her husband they had entered into an antenuptial contract in which each relinquished to the other all interests which would arise upon sur-vivorship. The contract is as follows:
*12This contract this day entered into between A. W. Rankin and Nancy E. Emanuel, both of Davis county,…
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