Jones v. Jones

Byron Bacon Jones, individually and as President of Tent Rock Ranch, Inc., and Susie Bottom Jones (defendants below) appeal from a judgment in favor of Marianne C. Jones (plaintiff below) modifying a prior divorce decree whereby additional shares of stock in the above corporation were awarded to Marianne C. Jones. The parties will be referred to by their trial court designation or by name.

Plaintiff filed suit for divorce on October 1, 1962. Plaintiff alleged that her husband, Byron Bacon Jones, had transferred a large block of stock in Tent Rock Ranch, Inc., to his mother, Susie Bottom Jones,…