Brady v. Brady
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a wife against her husband for an account of the rents and profits of land owned by them as cotenants, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. From an interlocutory judgment (Bennett, J.) for an account on a certain basis, an appeal was taken to this court, under General Statutes, § 789. No error.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The complaint asks for- an account of rents and profits of certain land, received by the defendant since a specified date, and alleges that the plaintiff then became owner of an equal undivided half of it, as a cotenant with him. The answer was divided into two defenses. The first was substantially a denial. The second, by way of answer and counterclaim, set up that the land at the date in question was unimproved; that the defendant had borrowed $400 from the plaintiff to aid him in paying for it; that the conveyance to her was simply to secure the repayment of this loan; that he had since…
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