Stewart v. Yager

MOREMEN, Justice.

This is an original action by which petitioner, Marjory Ellison Stewart, seeks an order requiring the Hon. Ward Yager, Judge of the 15th Judicial District, to desist from proceeding further in a certain divorce action pending in his court in which Henry Van Dyke Stewart is plaintiff, and petitioner is defendant.

The question involved concerns whether or not a divorce action has proper venue under KRS 452.470 which provides that an action for alimony or divorce must be brought in the county where the wife usually resides if she have an actual residence in this state and if she…