Elms v. Elms

Howard R. Elms and Alberta E. Montagne, adult children of plaintiff Lola M. Elms and defendant Fred G. Elms, filed a complaint in intervention in this action for divorce. They alleged that they had an interest in certain real property standing in the names of their parents, which was claimed by the plaintiff wife to be community property, by reason of having contributed, respectively, $5,000 and $3,000 to the purchase of said property and to the discharge of liens thereon, under an agreement with their parents that the property should be held in trust for them to the extent of their…