Ivy v. Ivy

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Appellant, Dorothy Ivy, defendant below, under her first two points asserts that the District Court of Rusk County was without jurisdiction to enter the divorce decree because the undisputed evidence offered showed that appellee, Vack S. Ivy, Jr., plaintiff below, “had not resided in Rusk County for six months next or immediately preceding the filing of the suit for divorce,” an essential requirement for jurisdiction under Article 4631, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Sts. of Texas.

The parents of plaintiff owned a home in Rusk County, in which home the parents and plaintiff lived from 1937…