Cummings v. Cummings

This action is brought by the plaintiff, Mary R. Cummings, against her husband, "William N. Cummings, defendant, for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, and for a division of the community property, etc. Morgan L. Ketchum, James L. Simpson, and the Bank of Watsonville were also made defendants.

It is averred in the complaint that, during the coverture of plaintiff and defendant Cummings, the latter acquired, by the joint efforts of plaintiff and defendant just above named, a large amount of real property in the city of Santa Cruz, of the value of sixteen thousand dollars or thereabouts, which was community property, and that a portion of the property was a lot situate in the city of Santa Cruz, which is particularly described in the complaint. It is further averred that defendant Cummings, by an instrument in writing by him signed, acknowledged, and delivered on the 18th of May, 1876, in form a deed of conveyance, without the knowledge, approbation, or consent of plaintiff, purported to convey to defendant Ketchum the lot of land above mentioned, in which instrument eight thousand dollars is stated as the consideration thereof; that Cummings and Ketchum, in the execution and…