McPhail v. Houghtelling

[1] This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Barry County, Missouri, modifying the decree of divorce, entered in that court on April 3, 1946. The defendant in that divorce case is respondent in this case.

[2] Respondent, when defendant in the divorce case, did not appear therein, and made default, although present in the court room at the time the case was heard. Appellant was then granted a divorce and the trial court, in that case and at that time, made the following order regarding the care and custody of the child born of such marriage:

[3] "It is further ordered, adjudged…