Malady v. Malady

Plaintiff institutes this suit to obtain a separation from bed and board from her husband, and for a settlement of the community which existed between them; and she brings Mary B. Caldwell in the litigation in order to claim certain property, now standing in her name, and described in the petition as the property of the community, averring that it was purchased with the funds of the community, although placed in Mary Caldwell’s name.

This case is one of those episodes which occasionally occur to startle • our ideas of the proprieties of life, which involves the actors therein in trouble, and…