Patch v. Squires

This is a proceeding in chancery to set aside certain transfers of bank deposits as in fraud of the marital rights of the plaintiff. There was a decree dismissing the bill, and the case is here on plaintiff’s appeal and exceptions. From the unchallenged findings it appears that the plaintiff and Abbie A. B. Patch were married in 1905, but they had not lived to gether for over twenty years preceding Mrs. Patch’s decease, which occurred on August 29, 1931. Mrs. Patch, upon the decease of her mother, became the sole owner of the bank deposits in question, and the accounts stood in her name until…