Gwin v. Gwin

Respondent instituted a suit in equity against the administrator of her deceased husband’s estate to recover $1216, which she claimed was her separate property in the care and custody of the deceased as trustee for her at the time of his death, and commingled and mixed with the assets of his estate, and for a decree impressing the assets of the estate with a lien for the payment of the said sum, with interest, and for an accounting. Judgment was for the plaintiff for $1216, with interest at 6 percent per annum, and costs, and the judgment declared a lien, as prayed.

The following salient facts…