Hug v. Hug

Defendant appeals from that portion of a divorce decree which awarded his former wife what he asserts is an inequitable share of the property.

In the decree, the trial judge awarded plaintiff-wife the residence of the parties and required defendant to assume payment of a $3,287 encumbrance *437thereon. Defendant claims that this was an abuse of discretion because he had an equity of $1,500 in the house prior to the marriage of the parties and the total equity in the house at the time of the divorce was $4,000. The testimony indicated that the residence was worth between $6,000 and $7,000.

The…