Gardner v. Gardner

STANLEY, Commissioner.

In granting the appellant, Mrs. Inez Turner Gardner, a divorce from Arthur D. Gardner on the ground of cruelty, the court awarded her $1,200 alimony. The question for review is whether or not that sum is inadequate.

The parties were married in 1939. They moved to Louisville in 1942, and during the following two and a half years Mrs. Gardner earned $6,800 working in a war plant. They purchased a farm in 1945 for $4,750, of which Mrs. Gardner paid $1,000. Title was taken in them jointly. They lived there until 1948, during which period she did the usual work of a farmer’s…