Huchting
Huchting v. Huchting
Opinion
lead Opinion
Nourse, J.
Plaintiff instituted this suit for divorce against her husband on the ground of cruelty. The defendant cross-complained upon the same grounds. A decree was entered against the plaintiff upon her complaint and in favor of defendant upon his cross-complaint, and the custody of the two minor children of the parties was awarded to the plaintiff and defendant for alternate periods of six months each. Plaintiff appeals upon the grounds that the evidence was sufficient to support a decree in her favor upon her complaint, and that it was insufficient to support the decree in favor of the defendant. No objection is made to the award of the custody of the children" or to the failure of the trial court to dispose of the community property of the respective parties.
The facts of the ease generally are that plaintiff and defendant intermarried in 1908, she being of the age of sixteen years and he of the age of thirty years. They took up their home on a farm in San Diego County, where he performed the ordinary duties of a farmer and she performed the housework, taking care of her children and cooking for the family and farm-hands. The specifications of cruelty in the complaint are that the…