Starling v. Starling

Candler, Justice.

The plaintiff and the defendant in this case were formerly husband and wife. While thus living together and during 1948, they acquired jointly and equally a house and lot in the City of Summerville, Chattooga County, Geor*787gia. They separated in. 1952, and on the husband’s petition they were subsequently divorced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. On September 24, 1958, and under the provisions of Code § 85-1504, the, divorced husband filed an application in the Superior Court of Chattooga County for the writ of partition, alleging that he and his divorced wife own…