Dunn v. Dunn

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

The question here presented is whether the Chancery Court must, at all events, annul a divorce decree on joint petition of the parties (filed in accordance with § 34-1217 Ark. Stats.), without the Court being free to exercise its judicial discretion.

On October 16, 1952, Albert Dunn and Josephine Dunn, filed in the Poinsett Chancery Court, their petition, which, omitting only signatures and verification, reads as follows:

“Come now Albert Dunn and Josephine Moore Dunn, Plaintiff and Defendant in the above styled cause, and respectfully petition this court to annul the…