Sanders v. Sanders

This is a divorce action, brought by the plaintiff-respondent wife, Patricia Lee Sanders, against the defendant-appellant husband, Ned M. Sanders. The first question in this appeal is whether the trial court acquired personal jurisdiction over the husband (a nonresident not personally served in this state) solely by reason of the various acts of the husband’s attorney in defending the action in the lower court.

In April 1960, the respondent wife moved to Tacoma, Washington, with her minor son, Kent Sanders, in connection with the .transfer of the appellant husband to a new duty post with the…