Melchers v. Bertolido

Whether the plaintiff has an interest in the property in question and hence can maintain partition, depends' upon whether a certain judgment of divorce obtained in California is valid, or whether its invalidity can be asserted by the defendants. In 1905 George Lenz and Pauline Lenz were husband and wife. At that time a deed of the premises was made to them, and they became seized of the property as tenants by the entirety. In 1918 *197George Lenz obtained a final judgment of divorce from his wife Pauline in the Superior Court of the state of California. In July, 1919, Pauline Lenz died. Under her…