Ray v. Ray

The contract of marriage between the parties was not made in Pennsylvania. The instrument which evidences the contract was executed first by the defendant in Pennsylvania on December 8, 1943. It did not become a contract until it was executed by plaintiff. This was done later, on January 14, 1944, while plaintiff was, as the instrument itself says, “ in foreign service ’ ’.

The rule in New York is that the law governing a contract is the law obtaining in the place where the execution of the contract is completed. When part of a contract is executed in one jurisdiction and the rest of it,…