Helms v. Helms

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of divorce. Defendant in the proceeding below appeals from that part of the decree relating to division of property.

The parties were married in 1934. Plaintiff had been previously married and had one child. No children were born of this marriage. Defendant at the time of the marriage was in the Navy earning $84.00 per month. In 1942, plaintiff became employed in war-related industry and worked for some two years. In 1957, just prior to defendant’s retirement from the Navy, plaintiff, using $6,500.00 saved by the parties built a duplex…