Davis v. Davis
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by the complainant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing a bill in equity to enforce the decree of a foreign court awarding alimony. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The appellant, Lucy M. Davis, filed her bill in the supreme court of the District to recover the sum of $300 awarded her under a decree of the district court of Shawnee county in the State of Kansas.
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Hearing on an appeal by the complainant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing a bill in equity to enforce the decree of a foreign court awarding alimony. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The appellant, Lucy M. Davis, filed her bill in the supreme court of the District to recover the sum of $300 awarded her under a decree of the district court of Shawnee county in the State of Kansas. It alleges that she brought her suit for divorce from Frank F. Davis [the appellee] in said court October 18, 1901, and on October 31, 1901, obtained a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
The testimony, in our opinion, shows clearly that Lucy M. Davis was not a resident of Shawnee county, Kansas, when she filed her petition for divorce in the district court thereof, and had not been an actual resident of the State of Kansas for one *262year next before that. Bnt being of the opinion, also, that tbe demurrer to the bill to enforce the decree rendered by the Kansas court ought to have been sustained for want of jurisdiction in equity, we shall not consider whether the said decree was a nullity by reason of the plaintiff’s nonresidence; or, if so, whether the appellee is nevertheless…
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