Curtis v. Curtis

COORS, Justice.

The plaintiff instituted an action against the defendant for divorce and division of community property. The defendant answered and cross-complained, denying the existence of community property and setting up an agreement between the parties purportedly entered into as a separation agreement with division of the property, executed in 1936. The defendant also set up an affidavit executed by the plaintiff in 1941 confirming and ratifying the earlier agreement. The plaintiff argued that both of these instruments were executed because of the fraud of the defendant. The » trial…