Nelson v. Nelson

The appellant exhibited an original bill of complaint against the appellee, his wife from whom he seems to be headed for a complete separation, alleging that she had granted him a gratuitous oral license to construct houses on land belonging to her for the purpose of leasing them to tenants and collecting and appropriating the rents therefrom. Acting on this license he built several small houses on the appellee’s land and has been collecting rents therefrom, but that the appellee has attempted to revoke this license and prevent him from collecting rents from the houses. The prayer of the bill…