Salsbury v. Salsbury

KENNEDY, Judge.

Husband and wife were a farm couple who had been married 42 years. Wife was 16 years old and had completed the tenth grade when she married husband in 1949. At the time of trial of this legal separation proceeding, wife was 59 years old. She had assisted her husband in their farming operation throughout the marriage. They have five living adult children; a sixth child, a daughter, had recently died in an automobile accident.

Husband in 1990 moved out of the family home and moved in with his aged mother, who lived on another farm in the vicinity. He took up with a widowed lady…