Brown v. Brown

The defendant wife owned a house and two lots in Spokane before her marriage to plaintiff on December 11, 1949. Thereafter, he coerced her into deeding him an undivided one-half interest in the property. On September 19, 1952, he procured an interlocutory decree of divorce by default, in a California action in which she did not appear. It approved a property settlement between the parties, which included the deed to the property in question.

The final decree of divorce was entered October 7, 1953, and the plaintiff husband brought this action, as a tenant in common, for the partition of the…