Atkinson v. Atkinson

The husband appealed from that portion of the divorce decree that awarded the custody of the six-year-old boy to the wife; and she cross-appealed from the division of the property made in the divorce decree.

The parties had been married twenty-four years. Their older daughter was married and living in eastern Washington; the other daughter was nineteen; and there were two boys, twelve and six years of age. Their home was in Eden valley, which seems to have been a misnomer. They owned some three hundred acres of second-growth timberland, about twenty acres of which was cleared and improved,…