Burnham v. Burnham

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for a divorce by Charles E. Burnham, of Cheyenne county, against his wife, Cora A. Burnham, a resident of Colorado, and a cross action by the wife for a divorce and alimony.

Both parties had been married before. By his first wife, with whom plaintiff had lived for thirty years, he had six children, two *91of whom were grown and married. The younger three, ranging from nine to seventeen years old, resided with plaintiff. The defendant had several children by a former husband, from whom she had been divorced some ten years…