Estate of Harris Gorback

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The question involved in this case is whether the provisions for the wife in an ante-nuptial agreement are unreasonable under the circumstances.

The decedent died, having left a will, wherein he provided for the payment of five hundred ($500) dollars to his wife, under an ante-nuptial agreement, in which she waived all claims and rights in his estate. The ante-nuptial agreement was entered into on the 4th of April, 1922, Harris Gorback was then a widower seventy-six (76) years of age, and Anna Stearn, the other party to the agreement, was fifty-six (56) years of age;…