Workman v. Peterson

Mrs. Mae H. Peterson in a suit for divorce obtained a decree on the ground of extreme cruelty. No alimony was awarded to her, but the decree provided for a property settlement between her and defendant, Fred A. Peterson. Plaintiff,, claiming that the decreed property settlement was, as to her, grossly inadequate and inequitable, took a timely appeal from that phase of the decree in August, 1948. There was no appeal from the provision of the decree granting the divorce, nor from the provision that the decreed property settlement should “be in lieu of alimony.” Prior to settlement of the record…