Freese v. Freese

In May 1935, appellant (referred to as Carol) was graduated from high school at Monticello, Iowa, and on August 11, 1935, she married appellee (referred to as Alva), a young farmer with an eighth-grade education. They were living on a one-hundred-sixty-acre farm in Jones county in October 1940, and had two daughters: Sharon, born September 30, 1937, and Karen, born February 8, 1939. At that time Carol left the home and thereafter resided in Ames with her sister and her sister’s husband. On March 18, 1941, Carol was awarded a decree of divorce, by default, on the grounds of cruel and inhuman…