Kath v. Kath

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying plaintiff’s alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial in an action brought to have plaintiff adjudicated the owner of personal property transferred to the defendant to defraud a creditor.

Plaintiff husband, a physician, and defendant wife were married in 1921 and divorced in 1948. In 1933 plaintiff opened a stock brokerage account with Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood of Minneapolis whereby the latter was authorized to buy, hold, and sell stock for the plaintiff without his signature. In 1937 plaintiff, to hinder or defeat a…