Middlesworth v. Middlesworth

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

In this case the only evidence before the trial court relative to the occasion for divorce bore upon the matter of the cruel treatment received by the wife, as plaintiff, at the hands of the husband, as defendant. There is no question but that in so far as the decree awarded a divorce to the wife it would be improper to disturb it.

As is not uncommon, however, there was dispute between the parties upon the matter of the community property and its distribution, and upon the matter of the amount proper to be decreed as the father’s child support obligation.

There were two…