Corban v. Corban

MR. JUSTICE FRANK I. HASWELL

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff husband secured a divorce from defendant wife in March, 1970 in the district court of Missoula County. About eighteen months later, defendant wife filed a petition in the same cause seeking an adjudication of property rights which had not been sought by either party or adjudicated in the divorce proceeding. Following a hearing, the district court awarded defendant wife the sum of $5,000 as her share of the family assets. From this judgment, plaintiff husband appeals.

Albert Corban and Lenore Corban were married in Poison,…