McGrath v. Hilding

Chief Judge Breitel.

Plaintiff Doreen McGrath, a wife of three months of defendant Hilding, having divorced him, and then evidently having remarried her former husband Mc-Grath, sought equitable relief against Hilding based on a constructive trust. Relying on an oral premarital promise by Hilding to give her a tenancy by the entirety in the home owned by him, she contributed money to construct an extension with two additional bedrooms to accommodate her children by the former marriage. In lieu of the half interest in the property, if that were not available, she sought equitable relief either…