Brecker v. Brecker

Hatcher, Judge:

This certificate involves the sufficiency of a bill by a wife against her husband to recover one-half the property held by him, alleged to have been accumulated through their joint efforts. The circuit court overruled a demurrer to the bill.

The bill mentions suits for divorce and specific performance, respectively, brought by her against her husband, the first dismissed by mutual agreement and the second dismissed without prejudice to her. See Brecker v. Brecker, 119 W. Va. 298, 193 S. E. 439. The more important allegations of the bill are that she married defendant in 1913 and…