Farrand v. Farrand

At the time of the trial below the plaintiff was 65 years of age and the defendant two or three years younger. They were married in 1910. In 1906, when they first met, plaintiff was a public stenographer and defendant a bellboy in an Ottumwa hotel. After their marriage they removed to Des Moines and. procured positions in a hotel there. In 1921 the defendant was employed by the Boss Hotel Company to manage a hotel at Algona, and later at Independence, Iowa. This was largely through the initiative of the plaintiff, and she worked in the hotels which defendant managed for long hours, as a…