Hazel Cobb v. Pete Gilmer

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

This case involves the title to certain property located in the District of Columbia which was deeded to the original parties in this suit, Naomi Zachary and Pete Gilmer, as tenants by the entirety. In 1962 the parties, who had participated in a marriage ceremony in 1947, discovered that Naomi Zachary had never been legally divorced from her former husband Roy Zachary. Naomi Zachary subsequently instituted the present suit seeking judgment quieting title to the property in her name. Prior to trial she died, and her daughter, who was substituted as plaintiff, thereupon…