Peteros v. Peteros

This is a suit in equity by a husband against his wife, her brother, and others who were added as defendants after the coming in of the master’s report, as hereinafter appears. In the Superior Court the bill was dismissed. The husband appeals.

In rough outline the bill alleges that the husband owns and for many years personally operated a store in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston; that in August, 1943, and thereafter until July, 1947, he was confined in hospitals for mental patients; that upon his confinement the wife took over the store and continues in control and possession; that she…