Smith v. Smith

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In this divorce case the court awarded the wife a divorce and custody of the couple’s four minor children. The appeal and cross appeal question only the chancellor’s awards and evaluations of four separate items of property. The husband, a physician, is engaged in the practice of medicine in partnership with another doctor. The arguments for reversal question primarily the chancellor’s evaluation (a) of the wife’s one-third life interest in the partnership office building and (b) of her one-third interest in a partnership profit-sharing plan and in the partnership…