Thompson v. Thompson

Peterson, Justice.

The only question raised on this appeal is whether the evidence sustains the trial court’s finding that defendant treated plaintiff in a cruel and inhuman manner.

The parties were married in 1945. Plaintiff was then about 30 years old and defendant about 43 years. It was defendant’s first marriage and plaintiff’s second, she being then a widow with a three-year-old daughter, Christina Rudebeck,. by a prior marriage. Although defendant owned a building in which there were several apartments and plaintiff later became the owner of a house, the parties lived with plaintiff’s…