Walton v. Walton

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a divorce case whereby the only appellate issue raised by the defendant husband concerns whether the trial judge abused his discretion in a division of property between the parties.

We will summarize only tendencies of the evidence, giving due consideration to the presumptions applying to a judgment rendered by a trial judge after personally presiding over a non-jury evidentiary trial.

The parties married on December 24, 1969, the wife then being twenty-nine and the husband being thirty years óf age. It was the first marriage for each party. They…