Howard v. Howard

HALLEY, Justice.

June 10, 1955, the plaintiff, Martha Marie Howard, sued her husband, Claude Edward Howard for divorce in the District Court of Oklahoma County on the ground of incompatibility. She prayed for the custody of their two minor children, costs, attorney fees, temporary and permanent child support alimony and an equitable division of property. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant as they appeared in the trial court.

Defendant filed an answer admitting his marriage to plaintiff and the fact that they had two children, 7 and 10 years of of age, but denied the other…