Lanham v. Lanham

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Harris

Affirm- • ing.

This is a divorce action. It was instituted by the husband and is here on his appeal from an order sustaining his wife’s jurisdictional plea and dismissing his petition.

There is no conflict in the evidence with respect to the jurisdictional facts, which may be summarized as follows: Plaintiff’s parents reside on a farm in Whitley county where he was born and reared; in 1934, when he was about 21 years of age, he left their home and went to Cincinnati, Ohio; in 1936 he married the defendant, and in obtaining his license for- that purpose he gave…