Lunsford v. Lunsford

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit for divorce with a cross-bill for alimony. The complainant and respondent married in 1921, when he was about fifty-three and she was nineteen years of age. He was a bachelor, and was then and continued to be a prosperous farmer. Her father was a tenant on halves with complainant at the time, and the family lived in complainant’s house. He had reared a niece and nephew, but they had ma-rried and moved off his place. His niece had a son named Alpheus Sanders, who was about five years old when the complainant and respondent married.

The evidence shows, we think,…