Vanduzer v. Vanduzer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. The parties are husband and wife. Plaintiff brought an action for divorce and alimony, alleging in her petition that defendant had been, guilty of cruel and inhuman conduct, endangering her life. In.an amended and substituted petition, subsequently filed, she withdrew her prayer for a divorce from defendant, and asked only for alimony. On a hearing the circuit court awarded her judgment for $4,200, payable in three installments.
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Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. The parties are husband and wife. Plaintiff brought an action for divorce and alimony, alleging in her petition that defendant had been, guilty of cruel and inhuman conduct, endangering her life. In.an amended and substituted petition, subsequently filed, she withdrew her prayer for a divorce from defendant, and asked only for alimony. On a hearing the circuit court awarded her judgment for $4,200, payable in three installments. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The parties were married in March, 1855. At that time they lived in Scott county, and they continued to live there until 1876, when they removed to Adair county. When they were married, they were possessed of but little of this world’s goods; but they were industrious, economical and prudent in the management of their affairs, and at the time of their separation, which occurred in December, 1883, they were in good circumstances. They owned a well-improved farm of 150 acres, and had about them the amount of stock and other property usually kept on farms of that size, and defendant had some…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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