Kendrick v. Watkins

This is an appeal by Mary Causey Kendrick (hereinafter called appellant) from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, which was rendered in favor of M. Erskine Watkins, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Marion K. Kendrick, Bankrupt (hereinafter called appellee).

Marion K.,Kendrick, the husband of appellant, was adjudicated a bankrupt on October 26, 1936. At the time of the adjudication, the bankrupt and appellant were living together as husband and wife in a home owned by appellant but maintained by the funds of the bankrupt. Certain personal…