Halliwell v. Lippitt Realty Co., Inc.

The plaintiff is the petitioner in a

divorce proceeding in the Family Court. While matters relative to the parties’ real and personal property were pending in that court, she commenced a civil action in the Superior Court against her husband and the defendant corporation. Her complaint alleges that, in April 1963, she and her husband organized the defendant corporation and represented to her that she owned 50 percent of its stock; that in reliance upon that representation she conveyed her interest in that real estate to the corporation and guaranteed certain of its obligations; that her…