Train v. Davidson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, George L. Davidson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the loth day of February, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of February, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The parties to this action were formerly husband and wife. Their marriage was dissolved by a decree of divorce granted at the instance of the wife on the 30th day of November, 1894. By a written contract between them, dated on the 9th day of November, 1894, but which does not appear to have been delivered to the wife until sometime after the divorce, the husband agreed to pay $2,000 a year to the wife in semi-annual installments of $1,000 each, in consideration of a release of her dower and ah undertaking on her part to save him harmless from any debts of her contracting,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Hardy v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- Whitney v. WhitneyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Van Cleef v. SicklesNew York Court of Chancery · 1835
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