Freet v. Holdorf

This case.;is .peculiar on the.factual ..side. When this action was commenced, plaintiff and defendant were husband and wife, and were the parents of a child about four years old. When the last amendment to plaintiff’s petition was filed, and the issues joined, in this action, the Gordian knot of matrimony had been severed by the granting of an absolute decree of divorce to the defendant by a court of competent jurisdiction in the sister state of Colorado. See Holdorf v. Holdorf, 198 Iowa 158.

When the decree was entered in this cause, the bonds of connubial.bliss ha,d.been resumed by…