Rakestraw v. Rakestraw

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

The plaintiff in error and defendant in error will hereinafter be referred to as defendant and plaintiff, respectively, as they appeared in the trial court. The divorce decree involved here directed the plaintiff, a petty officer in the Navy, to pay defendant’s attorney’s fees, awarded her custody of, and support for, the couple’s minor child, and granted the divorce to both parties on the ground of incompatibility, after a finding that they were both at fault.

In her present appeal from the decree, defendant argues, under her third proposition of error, that the trial court…