Title: Whitcomb v. Whitcomb
Citation: 398 A.2d 305
Docket Number: 10-78
State: Vermont
Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court
Date: February 6, 1979

398 A.2d 305 (1979) Christine E. WHITCOMB v. Wayne W. WHITCOMB, Sr. No. 10-78. Supreme Court of Vermont. February 6, 1979. Paterson, Gibson &amp; Noble, Montpelier, for plaintiff. Averill Laundon, Waterbury, for defendant. Before BARNEY, C. J., and DALEY, LARROW, BILLINGS and HILL, JJ. PER CURIAM. Both plaintiff and defendant sought a divorce in the Washington Superior Court. After a contested hearing, the trial court granted the plaintiff a decree of divorce. The defendant appeals, asserting that the court abused its discretion in its decree concerning the division of property between the parties. 15 V.S.A. § 751 provides that the court shall: The statute confers upon the court a great degree of discretion. Unless it appears on review that such discretion has been withheld, abused, or exercised on grounds clearly untenable or to an extent clearly unreasonable, the decree must stand. Sweeney v. Sweeney, 136 Vt. 199, 388 A.2d 388 (1978); Peisch v. Peisch, 132 Vt. 514, 321 A.2d 67 (1974). On the record before us none of these infirmities appear. Judgment affirmed.