Jessie L. Finkbiner v. Robert W. Finkbiner

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order by the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, granting appellee’s motion to dismiss. The motion was granted on the ground that the court lacked jurisdiction, since the action concerned a property settlement agreement which had been merged into a divorce decree granted by a Wyoming state court and hence could not be collaterally attacked.

The appellant by her complaint in the trial court sought to recover damages for alleged fraudulent misrepresenations made by the appellee to her during the course of the negotiation of a…