Worthington v. Worthington

Ward, J. †

The defendant appeals from a decree dividing the property and granting each party a divorce. The only issues raised on this appeal center around the property division and evaluation of real estate made by the trial court.

The precipitating cause of the action was defendant’s failure to respond to an ultimatum by the plaintiff, husband, that, unless the defendant, wife, returned to their Quilcene home to live with him, he would seek a divorce.

The parties were married in 1932, left the state almost immediately, and spent the first 12 years of their marriage in New Haven, Connecticut,…