Hogevoll v. Hogevoll

Defendant appeals from a judgment quieting plaintiff’s title to a parcel of improved real property located in San Francisco.

The parties were married in 1912. They were admittedly husband and wife at the time of trial in June of 1942, but were living separate and apart, and had been so doing for some time prior to that date. In 1932 the wife secured an interlocutory decree of divorce on the grounds of desertion, but did not secure the final decree. Later she obtained another interlocutory decree of divorce but again failed to obtain a final decree.

Upon the trial plaintiff introduced as her…