Howcroft v. Howcroft

235 N.W. 191, 253 Mich. 385, 1931 Mich. LEXIS 796

• Court: Michigan Supreme Court
• Decided: February 27, 1931
• Docket: Docket No. 25, Calendar No. 35,316.
• Status: Published

Opinion

Potter, J.

Plaintiff sought divorce from defendant and a division of property. From a decree for plaintiff she appeals. No complaint is made of that part of the decree granting plaintiff divorce. Plaintiff inherited about $4,000. The rest of the property involved is the result of the efforts of the parties, who owned jointly property valued at $18,788.14. Plaintiff had on deposit in her own name $7,159.25, and owned two lake lots valued at $500, a total of $7,659.25. This property she kept. The trial court divided the property held jointly, and gave plaintiff property on Seminole avenue, Detroit, valued at $10,000, furniture and fixtures valued at $1,000, and money in the hands of the receiver $992.10, less receiver’s • expenses, $50, or $942.10, a total of $11,992.10 of the joint property, and gave defendant title to the property on Mt. Elliott avenue, Detroit, sold on land contract, on which there was yet due $6,196.04, so the total property holdings of the respective parties were, plaintiff, $19,651.35, defendant $6,196.04. Defendant has not appealed.

Decree affirmed, with costs to defendant.

( Butzel, C.- J., and Wiest, Clark, McDonald, Sharpe, North, and Fead, JJ., concurred.