Shaw v. Shaw

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

Appeal by defendant husband from decree of divorce entered against him.

The parties intermarried January 20, 1922. The age of the groom was then 27 years while that of the bride was 44 years. The bride was a widow with two sons aged 21 years and 19 years respectively, they being the issue of a former marriage. No issue was born of the marriage to Shaw.

The husband, Curtis B. Shaw, served overseas in the military forces of the United States during World War I, from which service he was honorably discharged on August 19, 1919, under disabilities rated at fifty percent,…