Rovenko v. Bokovoy

The plaintiffs bring this action for an accounting by the defendant of what they claim to be a constructive trust.

In their complaint plaintiffs allege that the plaintiff, Mary Rovenko, is the widow of one Maxim Rovenko and that the other plaintiffs are their sons and daughters. That Maxim and Mary Rovenko had homesteaded a quarter section of land in Ward County, North Dakota, and later bought two additional 80 acre tracts of land in said county. That in 1918 they moved with their children to Canada and left the defendant, Alex Bokovoy, Mary Rovenko’s half brother, as their agent to look after…