Owens v. Owens

OPINION OP THE'COURT

WATSON, J.

Appellant obtained a final decree of divorce from appellee, in Bernalillo county, on service by publication. Thereafter appellee commenced, in the same court, the present suit to vacate the said decree, upon the ground of appellant’s fraud in suppressing notice of the proceedings, and the 'further ground that the district court of Bernalillo county was without jurisdiction of the divorce case, because appellant had not been a resident of this state for the requisite one year. The trial court sustained both grounds of the complaint, and rendered judgment setting…