Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0315-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wright, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COLEMAN v. TOOP.
    Ante-nuptial agreement — will and deed of married women — prairi pleading.
    Whether a will of real estate by a married woman, or a deed for her property, made without joining with her husband, are valid, are questions of law which may be determined without a resort to chancery.
    A paper asserting that a part of the bill is pleaded to, and part demurred to, will be struck from the files; such papers degrade the profession.
    In Chancery. The bill set forth a contract of marriage by the complainant, and the promise of the woman .to convey to him one hundred acres of land,-which she held; that he married before the deed was executed, and then the wife made a will, devising the land to the complainant, but being advised it was not valid for such purpose, she executed, without uniting with her husband, a conveyance to a trustee, and died; the trustee conveyed to the complainant: that the defendant,who is her son and heir, has brought ejectment,' which is now pending, and prays an injunction, and to be quieted.
    The following paper is filed for a plea: ‘•Plea of the statute of frauds, as to so much as sets up an -ante-nuptial agreement, and demurrer to the balance. PL. Phelps for Jno. Toopd
    
    
      Robinson, for the complainant.
    
      Loofborough, for the defendant.
   Wright, J.

If there is any claim in the complainant, it is a legal claim. If either the deed or the will is valid, they are so at law, and will constitute a defence to the ejectment suit. But the case ia not for hearing. The paper called a plea and demurrer, we can take no notice of; such papers are poor apologies for carelessness, and degrade the profession. The paper may be struck off the files, and the injunction dissolved. Continued.