Vives v. Vives

PONDER, Justice.

In these proceedings the plaintiff asks for the sale of a house and lot in order to effect a partition between her and her co-owners ; she also asks to be reimbursed in the sum of $14,069 from the proceeds of the sale for money allegedly advanced by her in the operation of the house as a rooming house over a period of years under an oral agreement with the defendants. The defendants admit that they entered into an oral agreement in 1925 whereby the property held in common would be used as a rooming house and that the expenses and profits were to be divided equally. The…