Lloyd v. Fulton
Supreme Court of the United States
Arpe at, from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Georgia. Fulton, the .appellee, having by his marriage acquired large means, which he had verbally agreed before and after his marriage should be held for the sole and separate use of his wife* executed the following indenture: — “ State oe Georgia, Columbia County.
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Arpe at, from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Georgia. Fulton, the .appellee, having by his marriage acquired large means, which he had verbally agreed before and after his marriage should be held for the sole and separate use of his wife* executed the following indenture: — “ State oe Georgia, Columbia County. “ This itidenture, made this, the fourteenth day of September, 1864, between Montroville C. Fulton, of the county and state aforesaid, of the first part, and James S. Hamilton, of th.e same county and state, of the second part, witnesseth that said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
All the testimony in this case was taken by the appellee. He was complainant in the suit. Only two witnesses were examined, — himself, and his brother-in-law James S. Hamilton. There is no discrepancy in their statements. The facts lie within narrow limits.
Fulton, the appellee, married Virginia F. Hamilton, the daughter of Thomas N. Hamilton, in the year 1851. Her father was a man of very large fortune.' Fulton received by her, before and after her father’s' death, more than $100,000. He had himself, at the time of his marriage, substantially nothing. His father-in-law died intestate in 1859.…
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