Thompson v. Thompson

The plaintiff sues in equity to cancel and set aside an agreement entered into between her and her then husband and for restitution to her of the property delivered to the defendant under the agreement on the ground that her consent thereto was induced by fraud.

The defendant during his married life with the plaintiff had given *615her 900 shares of the capital stock of the Thompson & Norris Company, a closed corporation owned by the defendant and his family. His married life apparently turned out to be an unhappy one, and thereafter he and the plaintiff separated. A foreign divorce was then…