Roberson v. Roberson

BERRY, Justice.

This appeal involves the correctness of a judgment rendered in an action brought by defendant in error, hereafter called plaintiff, for divorce and property settlement. No issue is presented relative to granting plaintiff a decree of divorce. The sole issue considered involves the propriety of the trial court’s purported equitable division of property acquired during coverture.

When the divorce action was filed, May 10, 1965, the parties were past 60 years of age. They were of mature years when married in 1959 in California where both were living, plaintiff then being…