Libby v. Lorrain

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the cost of [the defendant’s] contributions were countervailed by [the] exclusive possession of the property
• affirming the court’s equal division of the proceeds of a partition sale when one co-owner had exclusive possession and paid the mortgage, and the other paid for other household expenses, but lived elsewhere
• authorizing a “partition by buy-out” between former paramours who bought a house together
• exclusive use of residence may be considered in equitable partition of property
• Citing, Hanson v. Willard, 12 Me. 142 (1835

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).