Biddle v. Biddle

This is an appeal from a final decree of a court of common pleas, in equity, dismissing a bill by a divorced husband (plaintiff) against his wife and her inter vivos trustee (defendants), seeking to have plaintiff's assignment of his contingent interest in his father's estate, absolute on its face, declared to be merely collateral security for a loan.

Winthrop Lee Biddle, plaintiff, and his wife, Mary V. Biddle, a defendant, were married April 21, 1920. They have two children: Edward, born in 1921 and Dorothy, born in 1928. The husband and wife lived together until 1941, when they were…