Wells v. Wells

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the wife and cross-appeal by the husband from the alimony provisions of a judgment of divorce. The issue in each appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in the grant of alimony.

The parties were married for some fifty years. They reared three sons of their own and a daughter of the wife by a prior marriage. The husband is seventy-eight and the wife is seventy-four years of age.

Prior to selling, the husband was for many years in the lumber and building business. In recent years, he was very successful in business and accumulated a…