Logan v. Logan

delivered tlie Opinion of the Court.

On the 5th of August, 1834, Archibald Logan and Eleanor Robb, each then nearly 70 years of age, intermarried at Lexington, after mutually signing a contract in writing, whereby they agreed that neither of them should claim, by survivorship or otherwise, any right to the property of the other. Each of them had children by a former marriage, and had maintained a good and rather enviable reputation for personal honor, domestic virtues, and Christian graces—he being a member of the second and she of the first Presbyterian church of the said city.

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