McMullen v. McMullen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. In Chancery. Bill by tbe wife against her husband for an account of money and property received by him from ber during coverture, and for a decree for the amount of the same. The motion of the defendant to dismiss the bill was overruled, and he appeals. Other material facts are presented in the opinion of the court. cited chapter 84, Code of 1851, 2 Story Eq. Jur., title “ Married Women.”
1Opinion of the CourtLowe, C. J.
The plaintiff being the wife of the defendant, sues him for the price and value of certain property, personal and real; also for money, amounting in the aggregate to thirty-eight hundred dollars, more or less, which he had received from her, at different times after their intermarriage, in December, 1858, in Indiana, and for which he agreed at the time, as the petition states, to account to her. She asks that he may be required to account, and that a judgment may be rendered against him for the amount found to be due her.
What the relative rights of the parties were, under the laws of Indiana,…
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