Rufenach v. Rufenach

This is an appeal from a judgment entered against the defendant husband in an action for divorce based upon extreme cruelty.

The judgment: (1) Gave the wife an absolute divorce; (2) gave her custody of the two children of the marriage, aged nine and ten years respectively; (3) gave her monthly the sum of $40 for the maintenance of said children and (4) “decreed, assigned and set aside” to the wife specific real and personal property of the defendant husband “as a property settlement * * * and as a lump settlement, for her own use and benefit. ’ ’

The authority of the trial court to decree a i…