Court Opinion

ID: 9564796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:07:22.533764+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:40.579427
License: Public Domain

Felton, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part. I concur in the ruling in Division 1 of the opinion concerning the right to seek to enforce an ante-nuptial agreement after the death of the husband.
I dissent from the ruling in Division 2 for the reason that the action for alimony was originally instituted before the death of the husband and if the husband had died before the case was tried it survived against the representative of the husband’s estate for alimony up to the time of the husband’s death. Therefore, if the verdict disallowing alimony should be set aside, the right of the wife for alimony up to the husband’s death could be prosecuted by the wife against the representative of the husband’s estate. This question seems to me to be analogous to a situation where a person is injured and damaged by another and the injured person sues for personal injuries and dies before the case is tried. In such a case the personal representative of the injured person’s estate may proceed with the case to seek to recover for the personal injuries of the injured person up to the time of his or her death.