Patterson v. Patterson

This is an appeal by defendant wife from an interlocutory judgment and decree of divorce. The issues confronting us concern the trial court’s determination as to the community and separate character of the property of the parties and the disposition by the court of that property which it found to be community.

The parties were married on July 3, 1952 and separated on April 28, 1961. There are two children issue of the marriage, a girl born in 1953 and a boy born in 1956. Plaintiff was an automobile dealer and was also engaged in the car rental business. At one time he held a Hertz Rent-A-Car…