Minter v. Pounds

(after stating the facts as above).

It is the established rule that, where property is purchased by the husband with the wife’s separate means, it is the wife’s separate property, if she can trace her money to the property for which it was paid. The simple question in the present case is whether the circumstances are sufficiently explicit to show that it was the separate means of the wife that paid for the property. There is no direct evidence tending to show that the consideration, in part or in whole, was paid out of the insurance money of the wife. Although the inference is allowable that…