Sherman v. Sherman

This is an appeal by the wife from a judgment awarding her husband a divorce upon a finding merely that the defendant wife’s total preoccupation with her avocation so upset her husband as to cause certain disorders and led to the breakdown of their marriage. The defendant wife contends, inter alia, that there was no finding upon which a decree could properly be based. We agree and reverse and remand.

The plaintiff Ray L. Sherman and the defendant Harriet M. Sherman were married on June 24, 1950. They have no children. On February 7, 1972, Mr. Sherman filed for divorce contending that the…