Hanson v. Hanson

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court entered in favor of the defendant in a show cause proceeding.

The appellant and respondent were married in 1947. At that time, the appellant had separate property, which she had inherited from her deceased first husband, that was valued at about two hundred thousand dollars. It consisted chiefly of wheat lands in Benton county. The respondent, who had very little property of his own, had farmed this land until the time of the divorce in 1957.

At the time of the division of the property in the divorce decree, there were sixty-six thousand…