SULLIVAN v. ROONEY


404 Mass. 160 (1989)

533 N.E.2d 1372

MAUREEN SULLIVAN vs. JAMES W. ROONEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 16, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis T. Talty (Michael H. Arwe with him) for the defendant.

Anne L. Berger for the plaintiff.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

This case is another, in what appears likely to be an increasing number of cases, concerned with unraveling the property interests of two unmarried people who became disaffected after living together for a long time as if husband and wife. Here, we conclude that the defendant holds a one-half interest in residential premises in Reading in constructive trust for the plaintiff. We thus affirm the judgment entered in the Probate and Family Court directing...

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