Johnson v. Johnson

The appellant and Mary C. Johnson, one of the appellees in this case, are husband and wife and as such lived together from the time of their marriage in November, 1888, till the early part of the year 1897 — a period of about nine years. In consequence of marital- difficulties they then separated and the wife with the one child of the marriage went to reside with her parents. During the separation the appellant sold for $10,000 a fee-simple property which he had inherited from his father. Out of this he paid his wife between thirty-two hundred and. thirty-three hundred dollars as an…