Fidelity and Columbia Trust Co. v. Thompson

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

On March 24, 1919, Ralph Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson were married in New Haven, Connecticut. They went to Los Angeles, California, to live. On March 6,1923, he abandoned his wife, leaving her destitute with two small children. His abandonment of his wife was by reason of his infatuation for a Spanish woman, whom he met in Los Angeles and with whom he finally left there. The wife learning that her husband had an estate held in trust for him by the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company in Louisville, Kentucky, brought this suit to recover…