Seidel v. Seidel

The plaintiff brings this so-called action for contribution to recover from defendant his eotenant one half of the moneys expended by him for taxes, interest and improvements upon the farm which the parties admittedly own as tenants in common. The essential facts as found by the court are: the plaintiff and defendant, who are husband and wife, purchased this farm in 1915; they separted in 1919, the defendant wife going to New York. The plaintiff either knew or could have ascertained where the defendant was living in New York after their separation but he never communicated with her. He has…