Dowdell v. Dowdell

BLACKBIRD, Justice:

The judgment involved here is a divorce decree dissolving the marriage of the parties to this appeal. These parties’ order of appearance in the trial court was in reverse of what it is here, but their trial court designations of “plaintiff” and “defendant’ will be used in this opinion.

Plaintiff was granted a divorce against defendant, a physician, on the ground of incompatibility. The only property the parties then owned that had been accumulated during their marriage (other than his medical equipment, their personal effects, and two used automobiles that had been turned…