Luebbers v. Luebbers

In this case I decided at the hearing that the title to the property in question should be in the wife, but that the matter should be referred to a master to ascertain what the husband had expended on the property.

The testimony is before me, and the question I have now to consider is whether or not the husband is entitled to any reimbursement for expenditures made on property belonging to his wife.

Counsel has called my attention to the case of Silover v.Silover, 62 N.J. Eq. 761, in which Chief-Justice Gummere, speaking for the court of errors and appeals, says, in effect, that expenditures by…