Champion v. Champion

Parties will be referred to according to the positions that they occupied in the trial court.

Plaintiff and defendant were married on October 30, 1937, and to the marriage no children were born. At the time of their marriage, defendant had a five-year-old adopted daughter named Dorothy. She lived with plaintiff and defendant after their marriage. The defendant was 49 years of age at the time of the marriage and the plaintiff was 11 or 12 years younger. Both parties possessed some property at the time of their marriage. The defendant had a good income, and their living expenses were high almost…