Nell M. Leonardo v. Peter S. Leonardo and Rebecca Auteri

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Nell M. Leonardo sued in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to be declared the common law wife of Peter L. Leonardo and, as such, entitled to an inchoate right of dower in the real estate at 1764 Columbia Road, N. W., allegedly owned by him at the time of marriage. During their courtship, she charged, Leonardo told her he had bought the property on May 4,1945, and that when they were married she would share in the income derived therefrom. The marriage was consum mated July 9, 1945, she alleged, and thereafter the parties occupied a…