Potter v. Boisvert

In 1936 Helen Potter, plaintiff and respondent herein, and Wilfred J. Boisvert, defendant and appellant, left their respective homes in the east and also their respective spouses and together journeyed to California. Here they lived together and held themselves out to the public as being husband and wife until 1948, when they separated. During the intervening years they ran a grocery store and there was acquired also a residence property in which they lived. Thereafter respondent, Helen Potter, brought an action against Boisvert to have it declared that the grocery business had been a…