Allen v. Allen

On October 19, 1948, plaintiff Vivian E. Allen was granted a pro confesso decree of divorce from Jacob PI. Allen on the ground of extreme cruelty. The defendant Jacob H. Allen died in August, 1951. On January 2,1952, the Detroit Trust Company, as administrator of the estate of Jacob H. Allen, deceased, filed a petition in the divorce case to set aside a property settlement and the ensuing decree for divorce, which embodied the property settlement, on the ground of fraud imposed on the court by the plaintiff in obtaining the decree. Joseph H. Allen and Henry Allen, heirs-at-law of said…