Baize v. Baize

WALTER, Justice.

Spencer Baize has appealed from a divorce judgment contending the court erred in failing to find that a 110 acre tract of land was his separate property. The farm was purchased by him and his wife before they separated for $38,850.00. Appellant’s father gave him $3,000.00 to pay on the farm, and loaned him $16,000.00 which was returned to his father by the Federal Land Bank after the parties executed a note to the Bank. $2,121.44 of Community funds, derived from the sale of cattle, was applied on the purchase price. Approximately $20,056.00 from a trust fund which appellant…