In Re the Marriage of Cook

REES, Justice.

Respondent-husband, Robert H. Cook, appeals from the provisions of a decree entered in a dissolution of marriage proceedings under chapter 598, The Code, 1971, having to do with the allowance of alimony and division of property.

Parties were married May 28, 1947, while both were attending Drake University at Des Moines; petitioner was then a sophomore and respondent a junior at the University. Petitioner’s family home was in Springfield, Missouri, and respondent’s was Milwaukee, where his family owned a majority interest in a photo-finishing and postcard business known as L. L.…