DuBoise v. DuBoise

This is an appeal, with prayer in the alternative for mandamus, or other appropriate writ, if appeal does not lie, from an order or decree of the circuit court, in equity, whereby the court, ex mero motu undertook to amend a prior decree which the court had rendered almost two years-earlier in a divorce suit.

The husband was respondent in the divorce suit and is now appellant and petitioner in the instant case.

In August, 1958, the wife, in her original bill of complaint, charged cruelty and prayed for divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony, for custody of a certain child of the parties, for…