Keller v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““In contemplation of divorce appellant and appellee entered into an agreement dividing specified items of community property, and setting aside to appellant her separate property, on November 16, 1933. This agreement was incorporated in the divorce decree which was rendered on December 22, 1933. The agreement has no general or residuary clause awarding to either party any property not therein included. The following three items of property were not, eo nomine, included in the settlement, nor in the decree embodying the settlement, and appellant alleged that they were community property, and that she and appellee remained the owners of such property after their divorce, unaffected by the settlement agreement and decree. “First Item: An indebtedness of $21,000 owing to appellee at the time of such settlement by the Cooper-Keller Oil Company, which was paid to appellee in full, five days after the divorce decree. “Second Item: An item of $20,000 owing to appellee by the Cooper-Keller Oil Company as salary for the year 1933, and which was paid to him in full about the end of 1934. • “Third Item: 50 shares of the capital stock of the Cooper-Keller Oil Company, of the value of $46,250. * * * “As to the fifty shares of stock, appellant concedes that it was the intention of the parties that it should have gone to appellee bv the terms of the agreement, for she knew that one-half of the shares of the capital stock was the community property of herself and appellee, but by a mutual mis”

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