Godfrey v. Godfrey

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment which was rendered against him in a suit to set aside a decree of divorce alleged to have been procured by fraud. It is asserted the court was without jurisdiction in the divorce proceeding to dissolve the marriage or to determine title to property rights incident thereto for the reason that the marriage was void ab initio because it was contracted in less than one year from the time when defendant’s interlocutory decree of divorce from her first husband was rendered. A reversal of the judgment in this case is sought on the ground that the findings…