Barber v. Barber

Mrs. Lizzie Barber sued W. W. Barber, her husband,'for a divorce and for a division of property. Upon trial of the case without a jury, she was granted a divorce as prayed for, and was also awarded title to a farm consisting of 200 acres of land, which the court found to be her separate property and the homestead of herself and her unmarried daughter. But the court further awarded the defendant a personal judgment against the plaintiff for the sum of $1,900 as the defendant’s half of the community funds which had been used for improvements upon the farm, and to secure the payment of the same…