C----L----R v. L----B----R

555 S.W.2d 372 (1977)

C---- L---- R----, Petitioner-Respondent,

v.

L---- B---- R----, Respondent-Appellant.

No. 10224.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Springfield District.

August 16, 1977.

Charles C. Shafer, Jr., P. C., by Jerry Kenter, Kansas City, for respondent-appellant.

William Icenogle, Camdenton, for petitioner-respondent.

STONE, Judge.

In this litigation instituted in November 1973 as an action for divorce but on January 1, 1974, transmogrified into a proceeding for dissolution of marriage [§ 452.415(2); In re Marriage of Dodd, 532 S.W.2d 885, 886(1) (Mo.App.1976)], Lois, defendant in the action…