Stanton v. Stanton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was an action for a divorce, in which the trial court granted a divorce to the wife for the fault of the husband, and made a division of property, of which the wife complains.

Plaintiff and defendant, each of whom had been married previously, were married in June, 1939, and divorced in 1948, at which time plaintiff was sixty-one years old and defendant was seventy-four' years old.

Without going into detail, at the time of their marriage plaintiff was the owner of 160 acres of land in Missouri, of one note for $5,000, of another note of…