Brunner

In this action the plaintiff Louisa Brunner, one of the appellants herein, sought to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant Herman Brunner, and to compel him to provide for the maintenance of plaintiff and the minor children of the marriage. In addition to his defense, Herman Brunner filed a cross-complaint against the plaintiff and their daughter Theresa Brunner (in whose name the plaintiff had placed certain personal property). By his cross-action the plaintiff’s husband sought to establish his ownership of real and personal property in California, described in the cross-complaint, which property had been purchased by the plaintiff with sums of money brought by her from the state of Missouri, where these parties formerly resided. Herman Brunner alleged that all of this money was his own separate property, although held in the name of plaintiff. The plaintiff, while admitting that the entire estate was originally in the form of money earned by the defendant or acquired as profits of his business, alleged that all of this money had been received by her in various sums as gifts from the defendant, or was money derived by her from the sale of property which she had purchased…