Northwestern Mutual Savings & Loan Ass'n v. White
North Dakota Supreme Court
The Whites, husband and wife, signed an agreement to separate, and in-accordance with this agreement the husband tried to convey to the wife property standing in their joint names. This was attempted by both joining in a deed to a son, who in turn executed a deed to the mother. Neither of these deeds was recorded until two years later.
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The Whites, husband and wife, signed an agreement to separate, and in-accordance with this agreement the husband tried to convey to the wife property standing in their joint names. This was attempted by both joining in a deed to a son, who in turn executed a deed to the mother. Neither of these deeds was recorded until two years later. In the meantime the wife applied to plaintiff for a loan upon said property in the sum of $10,000 to take care of prior encumbrances to said amount. In her written application she stated that the premises were her homestead, and that she was a married woman.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurke, J.
Action to quiet title. Plaintiff had judgment. Defendant and respondent appeal, demanding a trial de novo. The facts leading up to this litigation, either undisputed or decided by us, are as follows: “The intervener, John F. White, and his wife, Lizzie N. White, the defendant, were the owners in 1907 of a hotel building in the city of Grand Forks, title standing in the name of both. Owing to some domestic trouble an agreement was entered into between the two *356on. April 15, 1907, whereby it was agreed that the parties separate as husband and wife, and live apart .and separately from and after…
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