Strozynski

Strozynski v. Strozynski

Good Law
1893 Cal. LEXIS 508·97 Cal. 189·31 P. 1130
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJanuary 14, 1893No. 14278California1,411 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Vanclief, J.

Action for a divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. A divorce was granted on that ground, and one half of the community property (undivided) was awarded to the plaintiff, and the other half to the defendant. The plaintiff brings this appeal from that part of the decree awarding one half of the property to the defendant.

The appeal comes here upon the judgment roll, from which it appears that the parties were married in Germany, February, 1873, and have one child, a daughter, aged fifteen years at the time the action was commenced (September, 1889), the custody and care of whom was given to the plaintiff; that the community property consisted of a lot 57 x 105 feet at corner of Twenty-first and Sanchez streets, San Francisco, and a dwelling-house thereon, the value of the lot and house being about two thousand dollars, and the household and kitchen furniture in the dwelling-house, the value of which does not appear; that the defendant is a shoemaker, whose average earnings are alleged in the complaint to be sixty dollars per month, but denied in the answer to exceed forty dollars per month, and no finding upon this issue. The finding as to the alleged extreme cruelty is in the…

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