Brooks v. Kunz

SNYDER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from an action incapable of description in any ordinary way. It stems from one of the live-together-without-the-benefit-of-clergy arrangements which are so common today, and the attempt by the woman, after separation, to obtain a share of, in this case, jointly held assets. Such suits have been aptly described as claims for palimony, the best known of which is the Marvin case in California. 1

Plaintiff-respondent J. Theresa Brooks sued her erstwhile friend, defendant-appellant Douglas 0. Kunz to quiet title to a 101 acre farm in St. Francois County;…