Case Name: COLEMAN v. TOOP
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1833-06
Citations: 1 Ohio Ch. 315
Docket Number: 
Parties: COLEMAN v. TOOP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery Ohio
Volume: 1
Pages: 315–316

Head Matter:
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 complain ant: 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.

Opinion:
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.