Cockrell v. Cockrell

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

The husband in a contested divorce action appeals from a decision compelling him to return to his wife of four months certain real estate holdings which she deeded to him the day after their marriage.

In the trial court’s decision the whimsy of our now departed good friend and jurist, the Honorable Peter Breen, described the marriage relationship of the parties as one where the husband at 45 was a vigorous man in his prime, but the wife at 63 had “already experienced the change from the autumn of her life to early winter.” Riley Cockrell while examining some…