Willeard v. Winkelman

The power of a court of equity in a separate action to grant relief from a judgment of divorce as to property rights after the time for appeal has expired and even when- the other spouse is dead was asserted in Johnson v. Coleman, 23 Wis. 452. That no relief under such circumstances can be had in the divorce action itself is settled by Johnson v. Coleman, supra; Bassett v. Bassett, 99 Wis. 344, 74 N. W. 780; and Graham v. Graham, 149 Wis. 602, 136 N. W. 162. And where the property sought to be reached is located outside the state, substituted service would give our court no jurisdiction…