Rissberger v. Gorton

*67JOSEPH, J.

Plaintiff brought this suit for a declaration that she and defendant are joint and equal owners of certain real and personal property acquired while they were living together. The trial court entered a decree for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. Both parties concede that the matter as pleaded is equitable.1

The parties first moved in together in the summer of 1969, when defendant was 21 and plaintiff 18. They lived together again the following summer; but each fall when they returned to college, they lived in separate apartments. In 1971 they cohabited throughout the summer and until…