Kosanke v. Kosanke

Hill, J. —

Hilda Kosanke commenced an action for divorce against Reinhold Kosanke on September 3, 1946, on the grounds of cruelty and that he was then imprisoned in the Washington state penitentiary. She was awarded an interlocutory decree of divorce on the latter ground on February 19, 1947.

They had been married in 1933 and had lived together on a 720-acre wheat ranch which Reinhold Kosanke had acquired for approximately eleven thousand dollars, and which was conceded to be his separate property. Three boys were born of this marriage, who were eleven, ten, and nine years of age at the time…