Hannibal v. Hannibal

DIXON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the wife from a decree which dissolved the marriage and found that no children were born of the marriage. The issues are the propriety of the trial court proceeding to judgment after the wife dismissed her petition and the validity of the judgment on the issue of legitimacy of a minor child.

To properly address these issues, the pleadings and facts need statement in some detail. The parties were married January 20,1973. Eleven days prior to this, the wife had given birth to a son. On December 26, 1976, the parties separated.

The wife initiated dissolution…