Leach v. Leach

Action in partition. A city lot with a dwelling house thereon is involved. Plaintiff is the wife of defendant Frank Boland Leach. The property was conveyed to them as joint tenants. The husband bought the lot in May, 1912, for $550. In the same year a house was built thereon at a cost of about $2,350, of which $2,000 was procured from defendant Mary Leach, the mother of the husband, as disclosed in Leach v. Leach, 162 Minn. 159, 202 N. W. 448. The property was occupied as a home by plaintiff and her husband until about December 1, 1921, when she left her husband. Thereafter she unsuccessfully…