Kegley v. Kegley

This is an appeal from the denial of a divorce. We reverse.

The parties have been married for forty years. They are barely literate, but are hard working, frugal people. The husband is a coal miner and earned over $13,000 in 1976. For several years the wife has had serious health problems and has seen a psychiatrist. Through self denial and careful handling the parties have accumulated a substantial estate. They own a brick house with forty acres of land and have savings of over $75,000.

In 1976 the husband moved from the home of the parties and began sleeping in a trailer which he owned and…