Collins v. Collins

McKAY, Justice.

This is a divorce case involving the sole question of whether there was an abuse of discretion by the trial court in dividing the property.

Alfred Eugene Collins, appellant, and Virgie Juanita Collins, appellee, married in 1959. At the time of the marriage appellee owned a residence in Wilmer, Dallas County. In 1965 the parties bought a residence and an extra lot near Whitehouse in Smith County. During the marriage the community acquired various items of personal property, but some items of furniture were found by the court to be the separate property of appellant.

The trial…