Cronin v. Hebditch

This is an appeal from an order overruling demurrers to a bill. Plaintiff, a 19-year old widow, filed a bill against the successors in title or interest to her 72-year old husband, to have declared ineffective, null and void, a “separation agreement”, dated January 11, 1949, and three inter vivos transfers in trust, dated respectively January 2, 1948, March 4, 1948 and March 4, 1948 and to have the assets, instead of the shares of stock, of two corporations treated as assets of the husband or his estate and one-third thereof distributed to her, as widow.

The case is typically one which since…