Wood v. Wood

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Ruby L. Wood, defendant in judgment in a divorce suit, appealed from said judgment to this court, contending that the act of the trial court in exercising jurisdiction in the divorce suit of her husband was void as a special law under the Constitution of Texas, art. 3, § 56, Vernon’s Ann.St., and constituted a denial of the equal protection clause of the Federal Constitution, Amend. 14, in that no provision was made in the 1957 amendment of Article 4631 Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St, for the rights of spouses of military persons against whom the latter, as a special class, were…