Carlson
Carlson v. Carlson
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Allen, J.
Appeal by plaintiff from a portion of a judgment made and entered against her and in defendant’s favor.
The action was one for-divorce and alimony based upon grounds of failure to provide and desertion. The answer denied all allegations of the complaint and alleged that all of the community property, which was of the value of $8,000, was in plaintiff’s possession, and prayed for a dismissal of the action with costs.
The court found that all of the allegations of the complaint as affecting defendant’s conduct were true and granted to plaintiff an interlocutory decree of divorce. It also found that plaintiff, after her marriage with defendant, inherited about $1,000, of which sum she applied $450 to the purchase of certain real estate, taking the title thereto in her own name and as her separate estate; that the residue of such sum was employed in the construction of a house upon the separate property of defendant and in payment of certain household expenses; what amount of such residue was applied to each of these purposes is not disclosed; that after plaintiff acquired the described property she borrowed $800 and executed a mortgage thereon as security and used the money in…