Wait v. Bovee
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Branch Circuit. *The plaintiffs in error are the heirs at law of Justin Wait, deceased, and the administrator of his estate; and defendant in error is administrator of the estate of Julia Wait, the wife of said Justin Wait. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Graves, J.:
This controversy is between the estate of the husband on the one hand and that of the wife on the other, and it presents a single question.
At the time of their intermarriage the decedents were respectively possessed of about two thousand eight hundred dollars, and each had children by a former marriage.
*405Their marriage occurred in 1852, and each thereafter recognized the separate property rights of the other. They made investments jointly, each supplying half of the means, and they took all securities in their joint names. This course continued until March, 1873, when the husband…
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