Swanson v. Swanson

Ed. E. MoFaddin, Justice.

This is a divorce suit; and the decree of the chancery court must be reversed, and the cause dismissed under the authority of Cassen v. Cassen, 211 Ark. 582, 201 S. W. 2d 585. In that case we held that a plaintiff must be a bona fide resident of Arkansas, and have the animus manendi — that is, he must be domiciled here — before he can invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of this State to obtain a divorce. The proof in the case at bar falls short of this residential requirement.

Joseph Swanson (appellee) and. Maudie Swanson (appellant) were married in Oklahoma in 1925.…