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  "id": 1672724,
  "name": "Robert J. SMITH v. Norma Jean SMITH",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. Smith",
  "decision_date": "1978-06-05",
  "docket_number": "77-410",
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      "cite": "567 S.W.2d 88"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Harris, C.J., and Fogi.f.man and Hoi.t, JJ."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "Robert J. SMITH v. Norma Jean SMITH"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "George Rose Smith, Justice.\nIn this divorce case the court awarded the wife a divorce and custody of the couple\u2019s four minor children. The appeal and cross appeal question only the chancellor\u2019s awards and evaluations of four separate items of property. The husband, a physician, is engaged in the practice of medicine in partnership with another doctor. The arguments for reversal question primarily the chancellor\u2019s evaluation (a) of the wife\u2019s one-third life interest in the partnership office building and (b) of her one-third interest in a partnership profit-sharing plan and in the partnership assets and good will.\nWe do not reach the merits, because the parties\u2019 abstracts of the record are flagrantly in violation of Rule 9. The issues presented are primarily questions of fact. The reporter\u2019s transcript of the testimony comprises more than 250 pages in the record. The appellant presents a 5-page abstract of that testimony, the abstract mentioning only certain facts favorable to him. The appellee\u2019s even shorter supplemental abstract is equally deficient. The chancellor, after taking the case under advisement, painstakingly explained his awards and valuations in a 6-page, double-spaced opinion, with several citations of supporting authority. The parties have ignored the chancellor\u2019s findings of fact and his reasons for his conclusions. When questions of fact are involved, the explanatory opinion of the fact finder is especially important to this court. Manes v. M.O.V.E., Inc., 261 Ark. 793, 552 S.W. 2d 211 (1977). In the case at bar we have not been supplied with an abstract either of the chancellor\u2019s opinion or of the greater part of the testimony upon which he relied. Consequently the case presented to this court is not the same case that was decided in the court below.\nAffirmed.\nWe agree.\nHarris, C.J., and Fogi.f.man and Hoi.t, JJ.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "George Rose Smith, Justice."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "P. A. Hollingsworth, for appellant.",
      "Kincaid, Horms, & Trumbo, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Robert J. SMITH v. Norma Jean SMITH\n77-410\n567 S.W. 2d 88\nOpinion delivered June 5, 1978\n(Division I)\n[Rehearing denied July 17, 1978.]\nP. A. Hollingsworth, for appellant.\nKincaid, Horms, & Trumbo, for appellee."
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