Fox v. Fox

BROADDUS, Presiding Judge.

This appeal involves the allowance of an attorney’s fee. On December 8, 1955, plaintiff, Madge D. Fox, instituted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, at Independence, an action for divorce against defendant. Her petition alleged that no children were born of the marriage. On March 16, 1956, she was granted a decree of divorce by default. No alimony was sought by plaintiff and thus none was allowed by the court.

Thereafter, on February 15, 1957, eleven months after the divorce was granted, defendant filed what he styled: “Motion in Nature of a Writ of Error Coram…