Legal Opinion

Mulligan v. Mulligan

Mercer Circuit Court

Decided December 15, 1908Published

Error to Mercer Common Pleas Court.

1Opinion of the Court

On March 5, 1907, Maggie Mulligan filed her petition in this • action seeking to have set aside a decree of divorce obtained against her by her husband, the defendant, at a former term of the court of common pleas.

In her amended petition, subsequently filed, she alleges that that decree was obtained by fraud and perjury, in this, that her husband was not, at the time of filing his petition for divorce, a bona fide resident of Mercer county, and had not been a resident of the state for one year prior to the filing of his petition; that she had no actual notice of such action in time to make…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Earle v. EarleIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Johnson v. ColemanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1868
  3. Yorke v. YorkeNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Whitcomb v. WhitcombSupreme Court of Iowa · 1877
  5. Caswell v. CaswellIllinois Supreme Court · 1887

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