Cook v. Williams

In this case we are asked to review a July 23, 1999 order of the Circuit Court of Randolph County that granted summary judgment to the defendant in a partition suit. After consideration of the briefs and arguments of the parties, and all matters of record, we reverse.

I

• The instant ease involves a dispute over the ownership interests of the parties to a parcel of marital real estate. We previously addressed this dispute in Williams v. Williams, 202 W.Va. 41, 501 S.E.2d 477 (1998) (per curiam).

*286In 1983, plaintiff-appellant Mary Leanette Cook and defendant-appellee Stephen James Williams became…