Meyer v. Meyer

The appellant’s complaint for the partition of real estate was dismissed by the circuit court of St. Clair County for want of equity. A freehold estate is necessarily involved.

In 1940, Charles E. Meyer, a widower, and the appellant, a widow, were married. Prior thereto they had entered into an antenuptial agreement whereby each waived all interest in the property of the other, presently and prospectively. On July 14, 1944, the appellant obtained a divorce from Meyer in the circuit court of St. Clair County on the ground of desertion. On May 11, 1945, being nine months and twenty-seven days…