Healey v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Cowrt. — Hon. Jacob . Klein, Judge. The agreement in question is a contract whereby Brewster, for a valuable consideration (the services and companionship of Eva), obligated himself that Eva should have a child’s share in his estate, that is to say, an interest equal to that which a child born in wedlock would inherit from a parent dying intestate; said agreement was valid and binding, and the legal effect thereof was such that Eva’s…
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Cowrt. — Hon. Jacob . Klein, Judge. The agreement in question is a contract whereby Brewster, for a valuable consideration (the services and companionship of Eva), obligated himself that Eva should have a child’s share in his estate, that is to say, an interest equal to that which a child born in wedlock would inherit from a parent dying intestate; said agreement was valid and binding, and the legal effect thereof was such that Eva’s children upon the death of their mother, after performance of her part of the agreement, became entitled to Brewster’s estate…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
This is a suit in equity by the children of Evangeline Healy, nee Pharis, now deceased, for the specific performance of an agreement alleged to have been executed by Caroline Pharis and Joseph Brewster and wife, which is as follows:
“This indenture, made and entered into this twenty-eighth day of September, A. D. 1857, by and between Caroline Pharis, of Cheviot, in the county of Harrison^ in the state of Ohio, party of the first part, and Joseph Brewster and Martha Brewster, of the sama place, party of the second part, witnesseth: That said party of the first part, for and,in consideration of…
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