
    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 lapd to the complainant, but being advised it was not valid for such purpose, she executed, without uniting with her husband, a conveyanee to a trustee, and died; the trustee conveyed to the complain-316] *ant; that the defendant, who is her son and heir, has brought ejectment, which is now pending, and prays an injunction, and tobe 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. H. Phelps for Jno. Toop."
    
    
      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 is 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 maybe struck off the files, and the injunction dissolved-. Continued.  