Murphy v. Murphy

Hanorah and Frank J. Murphy were married in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908, and lived together in that city until 1927, when the husband filed a suit for divorce, and alleged indignities on the part of his wife towards him as ground therefor. An answer was filed denying this allegation, and the suit was dismissed in March, 1938, for want of prosecution.

Thereafter the parties lived separate and apart in the city of St. Louis, but each knew the other's address. On December 28, 1938, Murphy filed, in the chancery court of Mississippi county, Chickasawba district, a second suit for divorce, in…