West v. West
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — lion. Henry O. Pepper, Judge. (1) “No petition for review of any judgment for divorce, rendered in any case arising under this chapter, shall be allowed, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding; but there may be a review of any order or judgment touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife and the care, custody and maintenance of the children, or any of them, as in other cases.”
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — lion. Henry O. Pepper, Judge. (1) “No petition for review of any judgment for divorce, rendered in any case arising under this chapter, shall be allowed, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding; but there may be a review of any order or judgment touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife and the care, custody and maintenance of the children, or any of them, as in other cases.” R. S. 1899, sec. 2932. (2) Where a decree of divorce is granted a defendant on her cross-bill, and she is awarded the care and custody of an infant child, bom of…
1Opinion of the Court
BLAND, P. J;
At the August term, 1900, of the Lawrence Circuit Court, Laura West obtained a decree of divorce on her cross-bill against Sam West, her husband. In the decree the custody of their minor child, Charles A. West, was awarded to the mother. On 'January 12, 1902, Sam West filed, in the office of the clerk of the said circuit court, his petition asking that the custody of the child be taken from its mother and awarded to him.
*685The substance of the petition is that Laura West had committed adultery with one Langston and one Alexander, before the separation, and that the respondent did not…
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