Bourne v. Bourne

EVANS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a divorce decree. The sole issue is whether the trial court erred in awarding a 4.15 carat marquise cut diamond stone to Mrs. Bourne.

The diamond stone in question, then in its original mounting, had belonged to Mr. Bourne’s grandmother, Ethel Hollins Bourne, who died in New York. In October 1974, Mr. Bourne, as administrator of his grandmother’s estate pending in the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk County, New York, caused the ring and other items of jewelry to be withdrawn from a custodian account in a New York bank and sent to him in Texas. After his…