Thrasher v. Thrasher

Plaintiff’s complaint contains no reference to the divorce decree which she obtained from the defendant in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. In plaintiff’s answer to defendant’s motion to set aside and vacate the order awarding alimony pendente lite and counsel fees she alleges that the Massachusetts divorce decree is null and void because the Massachusetts court did not have jurisdiction of the parties, and that it was obtained “by connivance and coercion of the defendant and is a fraud upon the courts of Massachusetts.”

Thus it develops that the plaintiff’s cause of action is a col lateral…