Berger v. Berger

NEELY, Justice:

No better example can be found of the legal chaos that prevails in the United States as the result of fifty conflicting state jurisdictions than the case now before us. The sole question fairly raised on this appeal is whether the Circuit Court of Ka-nawha County should stay its proceedings in a divorce case under W. Va. Code 56-6-1 [1923] when there are proceedings on the same subject and between the same parties pending in Virginia and North Carolina. We find that the circuit court erred by not dismissing the complaint under W.Va.Code 56-6-1 [1923] and we reverse.

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