Valaer v. Valaer

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition to modify a divorce decree.

Virgil and Dorothy Valaer were married in Walla Walla on June 21, 1923. Three children, Dorothy Joan, Eugene Webb, and Mary Ellen, were born the issue of the marriage. At the time of the divorce, the children were aged seventeen, fifteen, and fourteen years respectively.

When the parties married, neither of them owned very much property. In 1928, Virgil inherited property from his father’s estate valued at approximately five hundred thousand dollars. This consisted chiefly of Walla Walla county farm land. Upon…