Wilson v. Wilson
| Decision Date | 13 March 1952 |
| Docket Number | 6 Div. 325 |
| Parties | WILSON v. WILSON. |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Bland & Bland, Cullman, for appellant.
Russell W. Lynne, Decatur, for appellee.
Bertha Wilson filed her bill against her husband Elbert C. Wilson for divorce on the ground of cruelty and in addition thereto sought a sale for division of certain real and personal property, alimony and solicitor's fees. Elbert C. Wilson filed an answer and cross-bill in which he sought a divorce from his wife on the ground of heard orally before the court and the court voluntary abandonment. The case was in its final decree denied Bertha Wilson a divorce and decreed to Elbert C. Wilson a divorce on the ground of voluntary abandonment. The court further decreed a resulting trust in favor of Bertha Wilson in an undivided one-half interest in the real estate and ordered a sale thereof for division, subject to a mortgage on the real estate held by W. A. Plunkett. The court further decreed that the evidence was not sufficient concerning the personal property to identify properly the personal property and retained jurisdiction to make further orders concerning the personal property. From the foregoing decree Bertha Wilson has appealed and Elbert C. Wilson makes cross-assignments of error in respect to that feature of the decree which established a resulting trust.
No good purpose can be served by setting out here the details of the tragic failure of this marriage. It is sufficient to say that the parties were married in 1940 when they were both working in a defense plant and each was earning good wages. They purchased a home with money furnished by both and when they had a former misunderstanding they sold this home and the money received from the sale was divided equally. Later they renewed their affections for each other and then purchased the home in question in this suit and took up their marriage relationship again. The marriage is childless.
The husband left home apparently on good terms with his wife to seek employment in a distant locality. Within a week after he departed rumors apparently came to the wife that her husband had left and did not intend to return. Without waiting to hear from her husband, she immediately took steps to obtain a divorce and bring this suit. She left the home and took a part of the personal property with her.
The husband is not without fault. There are tendencies of the evidence to show that he had cursed and abused his wife. But there are also tendencies of the evidence going to show that if these matters had occurred, they had been forgiven. The evidence tends to show that the parties were living in a happy marriage at least for a short time before the...
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