SPELL v. SPELL

No. 79-110.

587 S.W.2d 221 (1979)

Teddy Joel SPELL et ux., Appellants, v. Sandra Barham SPELL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas, Division 1.

October 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny P. Rodgers, Prescott, for appellants.

F. C. Crow and James H. Pilkinton, Jr., Hope, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The appellant Teddy Spell and the appellee Sandra Spell, natives of Arkansas, were married here in 1961. They moved to Illinois in 1966, where Sandra obtained a divorce in 1973. The decree erroneously recited that the parties jointly owned 150 acres in Arkansas, in which Sandra had "special equities." Teddy actually owned the land, with Sandra having only inchoate dower. The decree did not award Sandra any interest in the land nor direct...

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