Haas v. Haas

Murphy, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying defendant’s motion to dismiss an action on a foreign judgment for child-support payments, for amended findings, or for a new trial. Defendant contends that the out-of-state court was without jurisdiction to enter judgment for accrued child-support payments under circumstances where he was not a resident of the state at the time the action was brought and where there was no service upon him.

From the record it appears that on August 17, 1955, in the resident State of Idaho, Doris J. Haas instituted a divorce action…