Bolen v. Humes

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Probate Court of Delaware County. The facts as shown by the record are as follows:

Harry Irwin married Louise Pollock on June 25, 1942, and died April 10, 1951. Several weeks prior to his marriage to Louise Pollock, he gave her a diamond ring. Irwin obtained the ring from the sister of his first wife, who had borrowed some money from him, and he asked Louise Pollock whether she was willing to accept this ring instead of a new one, to which she agreed. This conversation occurred while Harry Irwin and Louise Pollock were sitting in an…