Maxwell v. Maxwell

STATEMENT OF CASE.

ROBERTS, J.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Eliza Maxwell, was married to W. H. Maxwell something like fifty years ago, and after rearing a family of children, issue of the marriage, became estranged in their feelings toward each other, and as a result of such estrangement, voluntarily separated, and effected, or attempted to effect, an extra-judicial division of the community property accumulated during the marriage, by means of a notarial act made in the form of a “Dation En Paiement,” wherein a certain forty-acre tract of land therein described is appraised by two appraisers, at…