Blake v. Blake
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On REPORT. Assumpsit upon an account annexed and the money counts, based upon the following facts, as stated to the court for the sole purpose of determining whether or not the action could be maintained upon proof of them. “The plaintiff and defendant intermarried July 20, 1869, and lived together as man and wife up to October 30, 1871, and then parted.
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On REPORT. Assumpsit upon an account annexed and the money counts, based upon the following facts, as stated to the court for the sole purpose of determining whether or not the action could be maintained upon proof of them. “The plaintiff and defendant intermarried July 20, 1869, and lived together as man and wife up to October 30, 1871, and then parted. The defendant made application for divorce, by libel dated November 9, 1871, entered at the February term, 1872, of this court. A divorce from the bonds of matrimony was decreed at the September term, 1872. Previous to the marriage the…
1Opinion of the CourtApplbton, C. J.
The plaintiff and defendant intermarried on the twentieth day of July, 1869, and have since been divorced. While the marital relations continued, they lived in a house and occupied a farm owned by the defendant. The plaintiff offered to show that during the continuance of the marriage, he was employed by the defendant to make valuable improvements upon her real estate and to pay the taxes assessed thereon — and that at her request, prior to their intermarriage, he advanced money after' their marriage to pay an outstanding mortgage upon the same.
*180Were these several contracts such as the wife…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brigham v. WeaverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1850
- Faucett v. CurrierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Pierce v. KittredgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
3Cited by3 opinions
- Moulton v. MoultonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
- Grimes v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
- Grimes v. ReynoldsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1902