Withers v. Douglas

The chancellor determined that there had been a valid, though informal, gift of an interest in a chattel real by one co-owner to the other, and George Withers, who had been constituted the unwilling donor, appealed. He and Mary E. Douglas, the appellee, had lived together as husband and wife without benefit of clergy, from 1930 until the latter part of 1949 or the early part of 1950, when he left her. Four children were born to them, three of whom survived. In 1944, the couple, who held themselves out as man and wife, purchased a home in Baltimore for $1,300.00, taking title as tenants by the…