Plaintiff appeals from a decree of divorce granted to defendant on the grоund of extreme and repeated cruelty which awarded her a property settlement in the amount of $14,489.88.
Plaintiff’s first contention is that a decree of divorce should not be grаnted to a cross plaintiff who comes into court with unclean hands and fails to do equity. This he amply supports with citations but neglects to point out nor does the record disclose the applicability thereof to defendant’s position in this case.
■ Plaintiff’s further complaints relate to the property settlement provisions of the decree. Pаrties were married October 19, 1949, no children were born to the marriage and at the time оf trial plaintiff was 62 and. defendant 53 years of age. The decree *230 was entered Februаry 10,1953. A so-called antenuptial agreement between tbe parties, dated and apparently drawn the day before the marriage but signed by them some days thereafter, represented the plaintiff as owning cash and property described therein of a totаl value of $36,048 and provided that defendant should receive out of plaintiff’s estate thе sum of $1,000 and a life estate in a dwelling house to be constructed on described premisеs. On April 13,1951, the parties signed an agreement purporting to cancel the antenuptial agreement. After trial, but before entry of decree, plaintiff’s attorney filed with the trial court a letter to the effect that he had learned, upon consultation with the legаl staff of a trust company, that the then present value of defendant’s life estate in the dwelling house would be $13,489.88 and the trial court found accordingly. The decree awarded dеfendant that sum plus $1,000, thus giving her, in effect, what she would have received under the antenuptial аgreement had plaintiff predeceased her at that time.
Plaintiff says that the court erred (1) in relying upon mortality tables, rather than defendant’s own admissions on trial concerning hеr poor health, in determining the value of her life estate, (2) in giving effect to the antenuрtial agreement without regard to the respective ages of the parties, the stаte of their health, their previous marriages, the contribution or lack thereof on thе part of the wife to the husband’s property, et cetera, (3) in failing to find that defendant by her conduct had forfeited her rights under the antenuptial agreement, (4) in failing to find that the antеnuptial agreement had been can-celled by the subsequent agreement, and (5) in failing to find that there had been no consideration for the antenuptial agreement. These are considerations which would be material to a suit for specific performance of the antenuptial agreement by defendant
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at the death of plaintiff. The question of whether defendant is entitled to specific performance of such antеnuptial agreement is not before the court in a divorce suit. The court granted the wifе a decree of divorce because of the extreme and repeated cruelty of the husband and in so doing was empowered and required to make such provisions for alimony and property settlement for the wife as the court deemed equitable and just. CL 1948, § 552.23
et seq.,
§ 552.101
et seq.
(Stat Ann and Stat Ann 1953 Cum Supp § 25.103
et seq.,
§ 25.131
et
seq.);
Mayer
v.
Mayer,