Palmer v. Palmer

BARROW, Justice.

This is an appeal by John Palmer from an order of the District Court of Jim Wells County, Texas, sustaining Crystal Palmer’s plea to the jurisdiction and dismissing his *301suit for divorce. The District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, had previously granted Crystal Palmer a divorce from John Palmer and the Texas court held that under the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution, as well as by reason of comity, it did not have jurisdiction of the marital status of the parties.

The parties were married in 1940 and have three minor children. Appellee and the…