Beard v. Beard

In this case a wife (plaintiff, appellee) filed a bill against her husband (defendant, appellant) for an accounting for the profits and proceeds of an alleged partnership between them.

At the time of the hearing the parties had been married twenty years, had lived together until a few months before, and were still living in the same house, although the husband had recently filed a bill for divorce. For years they lived happily in moderate circumstances and through adversity. Recently prosperity has been followed by domestic and pecuniary discord.

In 1926 the husband and wife acquired half, in…