Gissing v. GISSING

The record discloses that at the time of the divorce neither of the parties owned any real estate and their personal property consisted of household furnishings and an automobile. Pursuant to the written stipulation, the judgment of divorce awarded all of the household furniture in possession of the plaintiff to her, and the automobile to the defendant.

At the time of the divorce the defendant was earning approximately $9,000 per year as a transportation specialist. He testified that he lost this employment on March 29, 1960; that he was unemployed in April and was in a hospital for…