Potter's v. Potter

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Affirming.

The appellee, Mrs. Victoria W. Potter, and her late husband, W. W. Potter, had a marriage contract. It was executed on February 19, 1912, the day of their marriage — the third matrimonial venture for the former and the second for the latter. Both parties were well advanced in years. They lived together as husband and wife until Mr. Potter’s death in January, 1927.

The antenuptial agreement provided that neither party should have any interest in the property of the other. By his will, however, the husband devised a life estate to his wife in…