Hoover v. Chambers

This is an appeal from a final decree of the District Court, rendered upon overruling a demurrer to an affirmative defense to a complaint in equity, Suit was brought to compel the defendant to comply with an alleged agreement of his to execute to the plaintiff a *29lease of a certain farm. To the allegations of the complaint, the defendant, after denials, pleaded, “that the premises described in plaintiff’s complaint are community property, belonging to the defendant and his wife', Elizabeth Chambers; that prior to making the lease to plaintiff, and at the time of making said lease, the…