LYONS v. LYONS

Docket No. 18735.

190 Cal.App.2d 788 (1961)

12 Cal. Rptr. 349

GLADYS R. LYONS, Respondent, v. CLIFFORD W. LYONS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

April 4, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin C. Hix for Appellant.

Pierre A. Fontaine and Andrew P. Costelli for Respondent.


DRAPER, J.

It is understatement to describe the events leading to this divorce as tempestuous. Plaintiff wife shot defendant husband and was serving a term in women's prison for this breach of marital etiquette when the case was tried. There was testimony that defendant husband had on several occasions pursued his wife with knife or razor, although he had failed to wound her. The court granted each party an interlocutory...

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