Handley v. Handley

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from that part of an interlocutory judgment of divorce adjudicating a certain parcel of real property to be community property rather than the separate property of plaintiff, and awarding the same to the parties in equal proportions, subject to a lien in favor of plaintiff for $2,348.

The parties met in Salem, Oregon, in 1940. Defendant was a sign painter by trade with a ninth-grade education. Plaintiff, who was divorced, lived with her 14-year-old daughter. She was unemployed and on state relief. After a courtship of a year they left Salem for Seattle in the…