Corbet v. Corbet

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Defendant Arta Corbet appeals from a decree settling accounts upon the termination of a partnership with her former husband, plaintiff Walter Corbet, in a family enterprise including trailer sales lots at Orem and St. George, Utah, which they continued to operate after they were divorced.

The parties were married in 1954. It was a late and second marriage for both of them after having reared families. Plaintiff Walter had operated a trailer lot at Orem, Utah. Shortly prior to their marriage he had hired Arta as an employee who responded to an ad for help. In 1962, they…