Mathiot's Estate

Citations

• 243 Pa. 375
• 90 A. 139
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 634

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Illegal contracts — Money loaned under an illegal contract — Recovery.</p> <p>1. The law favors' the continuance of the marriage relation; it does not favor divorce. Contracts having for their object the procurement of divorce or facilitating the procurement thereof are illegal and money loaned under such contracts cannot be recovered.</p> <p>2. Where at the audit of an executor’s account the wife of the decedent claimed for money loaned decedent and it appeared that the claimant had made the loan to enable the decedent to procure a collusive divorce so that he might marry the claimant; that the divorce was procured and the contemplated marriage entered into, the court properly disallowed the claim.</p>