Crowder v. Crowder

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

This case involves the division of real property in a divorce proceeding. The appellant, Unabelle Crowder, challenges the chancellor’s equal division of the proceeds of the sale of the home in which she had lived with her husband, the appellee, Eugene Crowder.

The parties were married on May 10,1947, and on August 18, 1953, they jointly purchased the lot upon which they built their home. In 1962, Mr. Crowder was in an automobile accident, apparently involving alcohol, that resulted in an injury to an unnamed person. On March 6,1962, as the result of his fear of a…