Gould v. Crow
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court. I. The judgment if conclusive — as undoubtedly it was — in Indiana, was conclusive everywhere else in this country. (2 Bisli. Mar. & Div., p. 706.) ' II. The divorce puts an end to all rights depending on the marriage and not actually vested as dower in the wife. (Hob-son vs.- Butler, 17 Mo., 87; Chenowith vs. Chenowith, 14 Ind., 2.) I. The Indiana divorce is a foreign judgment, and is subject to the law regulating foreign judgments.
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Appeal from Franklin Circuit Court. I. The judgment if conclusive — as undoubtedly it was — in Indiana, was conclusive everywhere else in this country. (2 Bisli. Mar. & Div., p. 706.) ' II. The divorce puts an end to all rights depending on the marriage and not actually vested as dower in the wife. (Hob-son vs.- Butler, 17 Mo., 87; Chenowith vs. Chenowith, 14 Ind., 2.) I. The Indiana divorce is a foreign judgment, and is subject to the law regulating foreign judgments. (Bouv. Law Die. Yol. I, p. 536.) It is indispensable that the court which rendered the judgment had “ a lawful jurisdiction…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Judge
This was an action for dower in a lot in the town of Union, in Franklin county, held by the defendant as purchaser from Robt. L. Jeffries, deceased.
Robt. L. Jeffries was the first husband of the plaintiff, Helen E. Gould. He was married to her in Missouri. After-wards, in 1864, he obtained a divorce from her in the court of common pleas, in Yigo county, in the State of Indiana. She did not join in the conveyance under which the defendant holds the lot.
The defendant set up as a defense to this suit, the Indiana divorce, and the plaintiffs allege that the divorce was obtained by fraud, etc.
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