Legal Opinion

Merritt v. Merritt

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1917No. 2230Published

Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; R. C. Stoddard, Judge. Action for divorce by Evelyn Woods Merritt against Fred Charles Merritt. From a judgment that the court was without jurisdiction and an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, plaintiff appeals.

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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; R. C. Stoddard, Judge. Action for divorce by Evelyn Woods Merritt against Fred Charles Merritt. From a judgment that the court was without jurisdiction and an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, plaintiff appeals. Under the law and the facts as. presented in the. record, appellant is entitled to an order of this court that this action be remanded, with instructions to the lower court.to enter a decree of divorce as prayed for in the complaint; or if, after a full consideration of all the facts, this court is of the…

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On Rehearing

By the Court,

McCarran, C. J.:

On petition of amici curix in behalf of the district court of the Second judicial district, we granted rehearing in this matter, in order that there might be presented any matter which we inadvertently or otherwise overlooked on the original hearing.

On the former consideration of this case we reversed the judgment of the trial court, on the rule as settled by this court in the cases of Tiedemann v. Tiedemann, 36 Nev. 501, 137 Pac. 824, and Presson v. Presson, 38 Nev. 203, 147 Pac. 1081; and to these authorities might be *393added Aspinwall v. Aspinwall, 40…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Presson v. PressonNevada Supreme Court · 1915
  2. Tiedemann v. TiedemannNevada Supreme Court · 1913
  3. Aspinwall v. AspinwallNevada Supreme Court · 1916

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