Else E. Callwood v. Clifford W. L. Callwood

This litigation grows out of an attempt to partition several parcels of real property situated in the town of Charlotte Amalie on the Island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, which for a number of years have been a bone of contention between the parties, a mother and her son. See Callwood v. Kean, 3 Cir., 1951 (2 V.I. 526), 189 F.2d 565; Callwood v. Virgin Islands National Bank, 3 Cir., 1955 (3 V.I. 3), 221 F. 2d 770.

The properties involved formed part of the community property, or joint estate, of the defendant-appellant Elsa or Else E. Callwood and her late husband, Richard Edgar…