| Court: | Supreme Court of Iowa |
| Facts: | Husband and wife made a contract not to scold one another about past issues; wife would be domestic servant, husband would pay fees. Husband spent money on other women, failed to pay. |
| Posture: | Appeal from husbands demurrer at trial. |
| Issue: | Should courts get into this kind of contract? |
| Holding: | Ruling on this would invite strife that wastes the court's time. Also other lawsuits. Affirmed. |
| Rule: | The law doesn't meddle in issues pertaining directly and exclusively to the home. |
| Reasoning: | This would be fraught with irreparable mischief, and public policy is against it. |
| Dicta: | |