Beck v. Beck
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Heard on bill, answer, replication and proofs in open court. This is a bill filed by a husband against a wife to have property standing in her name decreed to be his. The facts will appear in the discussion of the proofs.
1Opinion of the Court
Garrison, V. C.
The parties are Germans and were married in 1885, at which time the man was employed at small wages in a brewery and the woman was a domestic servant. He was then aged twenty-six and she was twenty-three. They went to live in modest quarters-in a flat in New York, and he gave to her each week all of his wages earned at the brewery. They only paid eight or ten dollars a month for rent. The husband had about $350 at the time of their marriage, and the wife says that she had $100, although the husband denies this.
Still living in New York, they next moved into little better…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Ridky v. RidkyMichigan Supreme Court · 1924
- Meyer v. MeyerNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1938