Townsend v. Townsend

This is an application by the plaintiff for an order directing the filing nunc pro tunc of an interlocutory decree of divorce made December 30, 1905. After the interlocutory decree was made it was left with the deputy clerk of that part of the court in which the action was tried. The moving party contends that such delivery to the deputy clerk was a sufficient filing. For the purpose of correcting the record, however, he prays for an order directing the filing of the interlocutory decree nunc pro, tunc. Section 1774 of the Code of Civil Procedure requires that no final judgment of divorce be…