In Re the Marriage of Capstick

SIMEONE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by appellant, Patrick Robert Capstick, from a judgment entered on December 2, 1975, by the circuit court of St. Louis County dissolving the marriage of appellant and Karen Marie Capstick and awarding Karen Marie Capstick custody of a child, support, maintenance and certain property.

On this appeal Mr. Capstick makes one contention — that the court erred in granting dissolution because the wife “failed to prove that the marriage was irretrievably broken” as provided by Chapter 452, RSMo.

The action was begun by the petitioner, Karen, by filing her petition…