McElyea v. McElyea

BRICE, Justice.

This action was brought to determine the interests of the respective parties (formerly husband and wife) in certain real and personal property held in the name of one .or the other of them.

From the trial court’s elaborate finding's, •we select the following as the ultimate .facts necessary to a decision.

The parties to this suit were married November S, 1925, and permanently separated April 28, 1944. At the time of their marriage the appellee owned a farm (thereafter sold for $7000 in excess of a mortgage debt by it secured) ; crops growing thereon at that time, subsequently…