Dawkins v. DAWKINS (40,956)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J.:

This was a divorce case in the court below between the wife of a minister and her husband. We have the unusual situation in which the husband’s church and a bank which holds a mortgage on certain church property became defendants in the divorce case. It is unusual, but not unheard of in our former cases for third parties to be involved in divorce cases. (Breidenthal v. Breidenthal, 182 Kan. 23, p. 28, 318 P. 2d 981, and authorities cited.) The bank and the church became defendants due to the fact that Mrs. Dawkins, the plaintiff, made…