Smith v. Brown

Graves, J:

The defendants, being husband and wife, in 1870 were living apart. He had his residence at Decatur, in Van Burén county, and she hers at Fenton, in Genesee county. He was possessed of considerable property, and among other items owned lots three, four, six, seven, and eight in block two of Wakeman’s addition to Fenton. She occupied these lots, living in a dwelling house standing on lot eight, and having with her three daughters, children of the parties. Their son Walter, a lad then about seventeen, stayed with his father at Decatur.

In August of that year a decree of divorce from the…