Gilliam v. Riggs

PARKER, Justice.

On February 13, 1962, Claude Gilliam, as an intervenor, filed suit to set aside a divorce decree and judgment entered on December 16, 1948, in the District Court of Jefferson County, Texas, by which A. E. Riggs, Jr., was granted a divorce from Sarah L. Riggs. Intervenor alleged that the divorce was obtained by fraud practiced upon the District Court of Jefferson County, Texas, because both plaintiff and defendant were residents of the State of Louisiana and neither had lived in the State of Texas for one year prior to the said Riggs having filed suit for divorce. The…