Cawley v. Cawley

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the wife, was defendant in a divorce action brought by her then husband on March 1, 1955. This suit resulted in an interlocutory decree in divorce being granted to the husband on June 20, 1956, which decree by its terms became a final decree in divorce on December 21, 1956. In these interlocutory and final decrees nothing is said about alimony, temporary or permanent, or a property settlement, neither were the matters nor any of them reserved.

On May 6, 1957, the wife filed her “Petition for Property Settlement” wherein she prayed that the court…