Agnew v. Agnew

The plaintiff and defendant were married on the 31st day of December, 1929. At the time of their marriage, the de-

fendant was a widower 51 years of age, and the plaintiff, who had not previously been married, was 48 years of age. The defendant’s former wife had died in 1926, and he had two sons, Grif and Jack, who were, respectively, 27 and 14 years of age at the time of the trial. Prior to her marriage the plaintiff had been the principal of a commercial school in the city of Des Moines. The defendant was engaged in the elevator business at Dunkerton in Black Hawk county, Iowa. Following…