Ryan v. Roop

MiNOB. W. Millwee, Justice.

Appellant, A. L. Ryan, and appellee, Cordie Ryan Roop, were married in 1907 and lived together until 1939. No children were horn of the marriage. In 1943, appellant instituted a suit for divorce from appellee in Craighead Chancery Court. At that time the parties owned lot 6, block 7, Cockerell’s Addition North to the City of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as tenants by the entirety. In settlement of property rights between the parties in the divorce suit, appellant conveyed the lot in Pine Bluff to appellee by quitclaim deed on March 27, 1944.

On April 19, 1944, appellant was…