Stephens v. Stephens

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This is a bill in the nature of a bill of review to set aside a decree of the Circuit Court, in Equity, of St. Clair County, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between the parties to this cause.

This suit is based on the alleged fraud in the concoction or procurement of the divorce decree, and comes here to review a decree of the trial court overruling a demurrer to the bill of complaint. That ruling is the only issue presented on this appeal.

We have repeatedly held that to support a bill of this nature, it must appear that fraud was practiced in the very act of…