Hamm v. Hamm

The record presents an important question concerning the right of one who has obtained a divorce in another state to challenge the validity of the decree on the ground that neither of the parties was domiciled in the divorce forum at the time the divorce suit was instituted. The case is here on a technical record and the question arises in this way: the bill was filed by the complainant in the chancery court of Shelby County, Tennessee, on March 26, 1946, against the defendant, Sara Nell Hamm, seeking a divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. The defendant being allegedly a…