Harper v. Harper

SADLER, Justice.

The primary question submitted for decision is whether the district court, upon decreeing an absolute divorce of the wife from her husband and ordering a dissolution of the community with a division of the community estate, may properly set over to the wife his one-half interest in a' real estate'purchase contract and a deed of trust, identified and adjudged to be community property, in lieu of an award of lump sum alimony.

A statement of the initial question submitted would suggest the husband, the plaintiff ’ below, as the complaining party who presents it and seeks our…