Togliatti v. Robertson

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding certain United States savings bonds (purchased by the deceased, John Morello) to the plaintiff, and decreeing that neither of the defendants owned any interest therein.

The facts were stipulated between the parties at the time of trial. John and Lulu Morello were married January 17, 1918, in Montana. Later they moved to Washington, living in Cle Elum until they separated in 1928. On July 14, 1928, after due proceedings regularly had, Lulu Morello obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from her husband, John. No final decree of divorce was ever…