Duvale v. Duvale

Reed, V. C.

This bill is filed by a husband against his wife. The subject-matter of the suit concerns a house and its curtilage, situated at the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, the legal title to which is in the wife. The land was purchased and improved, and the buildings upon it were erected with the money of the husband. The prayer of the bill is that the wife may be declared to hold the said property in trust for her husband; or that she may be compelled to execute a will in his favor for it.

The admitted facts are these : On May 7th, 1890, the husband contracted with one Kay and one…