Armstrong v. Armstrong

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

The parties appear here in the same order in which they appeared below and will be referred to by their trial court designations of “plaintiff” and “defendant”.

The judgment, toward which this appeal is directed, is a decree granting defendant a divorce from plaintiff on his cross-petition, and ordering a division of the parties’ property. Defendant is 59 years of age and plaintiff is 48. They were married in 1941. Only one child was born of the marriage, a son, now an adult.

In 1957, defendant’s father conveyed to him the property which the couple has made their home. Its…