Odone v. Marzocchi

Respondent husband brought this action to recover certain real and personal property transferred by his wife shortly before her death to appellant.

Respondent, Giacomo Odone, and the decedent, Maria Odone, were married in France in 1928, and came to San Francisco where they lived until Maria’s death in January, 1946. The record does not show that either of the parties had any separate property at the time of the marriage or that either of them acquired any during the marriage except as hereinafter set forth.

In July, 1944, Maria purchased for $1,300 a piece of improved real estate in San…