Shaw v. Shaw

This is a divorce proceeding in which the chancellor, hearing the cause upon oral testimony, decreed the- petitioner, wife, an absolute divorce and alimony.

The defendant prayed and was granted an appeal to the court of civil appeals, and was allowed thirty days within which to file his bill of exceptions.

On April the 29th, 1925, the court of civil appeals affirmed the decree of the chancellor, for the reason that it did not appear from the record that the bill of excep tions was filed within the thirty days. On the same daj that conrt adjourned for the term, and on May 1, 1925, the act…