Lamar v. Lamar

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Baldwin County, in equity, establishing a resulting trust in favor of appellee to an undivided one-half interest in certain real property and ordering a sale of the property for division.

Appellant (as husband) and appellee (as wife) entered into a purported marriage ceremony in 1941 and lived together thereafter as man and wife until their separation in 1953. The real property here involved was acquired while they were so living together. In 1954 appellee filed a suit for divorce against appellant on the ground of…