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Title: Ellen Margaret Lindahl v. Axel Victor
Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Release Date : January 30, 1963
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 66 KB

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PER CURIAM (on motion for rehearing). By the trial court's division of property, plaintiff wife was awarded approximately one half of the aggregate property of the parties. This court considered that this was an excessive proportion to award to her in view of the fact that defendant had a substantial estate of his own at the time of the marriage. The division of property was accordingly modified so as to award plaintiff slightly in excess of one third of the aggregate property. Instead of granting this modification on the ground that the trial court's division constituted an abuse of discretion, the opinion stated that the trial court erred in determining the amount of defendant's wealth at the time of the marriage. The error pointed out was the trial court's failure to accept defendant's uncontradicted testimony that the value of a paid-up life insurance policy at time of marriage was $6,000. Plaintiff has moved for a rehearing on the ground that defendant's testimony was contradicted by his own financial statement, which was admitted into evidence as an exhibit, in which he listed the value of this policy at a considerably lesser amount than $6,000. This fact was not called to out attention by the original briefs. Furthermore, defendant's original brief contained no appendix and plaintiff's supplemental appendix consisted solely of the trial court's findings of fact and Conclusions of law. Upon further careful consideration, we have concluded that the modified division of property set forth in the original opinion is fair and equitable and should stand regardless of the value that such paid-up life insurance policy had at time of the marriage.