Littlefield v. Littlefield

This is a suit in equity brought in the circuit court of Johnson County to annul a decree of divorce alleged to have been obtained through fraud. A trial resulted in a finding for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals.

The right of action in this case rests upon our ruling in Dorrance v. Dorrance, 242 Mo. 625, in which we held that Section 2381, Revised Statutes 1909, should be so construed as to exclude from its purview an equitable action for relief against fraudulent judgments of divorce, and hence that said section was unconstitutional in so…