Berman v. Thomas

This is an action by the wife, Katherine Alice Harrington, against the administrator of her deceased husband, John P. Harrington, for a division of community property and for an accounting. Since the trial in the lower court the plaintiff has died and her executor, Max Berman, has been substituted for her. Herein we shall refer to the wife as plaintiff and to the husband as defendant. The case was 'tried before the court on the pleadings and certain documentary evidence offered by the defendant in support of his pleas of res judicata and in abatement, and resulted in a judgment in favor of…