Hull v. Hull

The principal issue on this appeal, as we view it, is whether there was an abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court in awarding to Mrs. Hull one half the net estate of the parties as a division of property, as well as requiring Mr. Hull to pay alimony to her of $15 per week.

The principles which should govern a trial court in making a division of estate in divorce actions were carefully reviewed by this court in Gauger v. Gauger, 157 Wis. 630, 633, 147 N. W. 1075, and are as applicable today as when that case was decided in 1914. It was therein declared, “it has been pretty well…