Vallera v. Vallera

The instant appeal grows out of litigation extending over a period of years: The plaintiff, relying on a common law marriage contracted between herself and the defendant in Michigan on December 16, 1938, brought an action on July 17, 1940, for separate maintenance and for a division of community property which she alleged was worth $60,000. In that action the trial court found against the ex istence of a common law marriage and that for at least three years after May, 1936, the relation between the parties was meretricious; that between January 30, 1933, and December 15, 1938, defendant was…