Owen v. Stewart

Plaintiff Winifred R. Owen on January 31, 1968, obtained in the State of Vermont, an ex parte “divorce from bed and board ” from Robert L. Owen a defendant in this case. The Vermont courts decreed to her, free from any and all rights of Robert, a parcel of land with buildings situated in Piermont, New Hampshire standing in the name of Robert, and a parcel of land also in Piermont held in the names of both and ordered Robert to convey them to Winifred. On September 28, 1966, Robert had mortgaged the first of these parcels to his mother Antoinette B. Stewart, the other defendant in the present…