Reed v. Reed

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Julia Reed, from a decree granting her a divorce from the defendant, Fred C. Reed.

It was on October 2, 1946, at the Finlen Hotel in Butte, Montana, that the plaintiff, then Julia Pond, and the defendant Fred C. Reed first met.

At that time Julia was on the stage as a concert singer in light opera and making her home in a rented apartment in Beverly Hills, California, and Fred was a successful retail auto dealer and the president and principal owner of both the Reed Motor Company of Anaconda, Montana, and the. North Side Motor Company of Jerome, Idaho.

Julia…