Smoot v. Smoot

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

In this divorce case, tried without a jury, the court made a division of the property unsatisfactory to the wife. On this appeal she attacks the finding of the trial court that certain land, which was an asset of a partnership between the husband and his father, was the husband’s separate property. We hold that the record sustains the trial court’s finding.

The facts are undisputed. The divorce decree divides the community property of Fay Smoot and Lloyd Smoot, Jr. and lists other assets that are declared to be the separate property of the respective parties. The values…