Legal Opinion

Gatchell v. Gatchell

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided September 25, 1928PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.

The bill filed by this complainant, praying equitable partition of certain real estate in Monmouth, on the theory that an undivided third thereof had descended to her, was dismissed below. Appeal has brought the record up.

George H. Gatchell, whom the complainant married and whose widow she is, owned the premises in fee simple, prenuptially. On October 1, 1918, a matter of six weeks before his marriage, he *330voluntarily conveyed, not all his real property, but this particular property, to his only two surviving sons by a former marriage; these sons being the respondents in this cause.

The deed…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Givens v. MarbutSupreme Court of Missouri · 1914

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Federal Deposit Insurance v. ProiaSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1995
  2. In Re Estate of DeschenesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2003
  3. Lamson v. CoteSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2001
  4. Shaw v. McKenzieSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1932
  5. Paine v. PaineSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1983

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