KAUFMANN ESTATE


404 Pa. 131 (1961)

Kaufmann Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Maxwell and Samuel Kaufman, with them Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, for appellant.

John C. Bane, Jr., with him Richard A. Gray, Jr., John H. Scott, Jr., Robert L. Kirkpatrick, John G. Frazer, Jr., and Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, and Kirkpatrick, Pomeroy, Lockhart & Johnson, for appellees.

Ralph S. Snyder, Deputy Attorney General, with him Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, May 23, 1961:

The primary issue herein is the validity of an antenuptial agreement entered into by Edgar Kaufmann (decedent) and Grace S. Kaufmann on September 3, 1954, the day prior to their marriage.

Edgar Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh resident, died on April 15, 1955 — seven months subsequent to his marriage — survived by Grace Kaufmann, his wife, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., a son by a prior marriage. Decedent...

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