Spute v. Spute

— Plaintiff and defendant were married at Denver, Colorado, in June, 1906. Plaintiff was twenty-one years old and defendant forty-two. Defendant had been married before. He had some mining property or prospects in Alaska, and the parties went to Nome, where they remained two seasons. In Alaska their life was harmonious. In 1908, they came to Seattle, and after a time spent at a hotel, defendant bought a small farm in Kitsap county. They then removed to the farm and raised fruit and chickens and other products of a small place. Defendant cleared up some of the uncleared land, which involved…