Whitford v. Whitford
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; John E. Martineau, Chancellor; The decree for divorce is void for the reason that the record fails to show that the plaintiff had resided in the State for one year next before the bringing of the suit. Kirby’s Dig., § 2678; 24 Ark. 522: 54 Ark. 172: 59 Ark. 441: 78 N. W. 108: 68 S. W. 971; 41 Pac. 369; 12 S. W. 90; 47 Pac. 21; 83 N. W. 1088; 12 Fla. 449; 36 Fla. 372; 3 Mo. App. 571; 8 S. W. 440; 59 Ark. 487; 55 Ark. 30; 42 Am.
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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; John E. Martineau, Chancellor; The decree for divorce is void for the reason that the record fails to show that the plaintiff had resided in the State for one year next before the bringing of the suit. Kirby’s Dig., § 2678; 24 Ark. 522: 54 Ark. 172: 59 Ark. 441: 78 N. W. 108: 68 S. W. 971; 41 Pac. 369; 12 S. W. 90; 47 Pac. 21; 83 N. W. 1088; 12 Fla. 449; 36 Fla. 372; 3 Mo. App. 571; 8 S. W. 440; 59 Ark. 487; 55 Ark. 30; 42 Am. St. R. 395. It will not be presumed that the facts were different from those stated in the record. 18 Wall. 350; 97 U. S. 444; 110…
1Opinion of the Court
C. C. Reid, Special Judge.
On August 28, 1910, Charles Whitford, while engaged in his employment as fireman on a regular interstate train of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, was killed in a wreck by the derailment of the train in Saline County, Arkansas. Beulah Whitford took out letters of administration on his estate, and on the —-— day of September, 1910, brought suit in the United States Circuit Court at Little Rock, under an act of Congress commonly known as the Hepburn Act, asking recovery for the benefit of herself as widow, and, in a separate count, sought also to…
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