Cole v. Cole

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

This is a divorce case.

The parties were married in August 1959. The husband filed for divorce on the grounds that there had been an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. The wife answered and counterclaimed on the same grounds. At the hearing in July 1987, the husband dismissed his complaint for divorce, and the case proceeded on the wife’s counterclaim.

The trial court issued its decree, which granted the divorce and divided the marital property. The husband appeals.

In his first issue, the husband contends that the trial court erred and abused its…