Helpling v. Helpling

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment in the defendant’s favor in an action for divorce, dismissing said action, the defendant’s special plea of res adjudicata being sustained by the trial court.

The facts of the case are undisputed and are briefly these: The parties to this action intermarried on April 26, 1898. On September 26, 1917, the plaintiff’s wife, who is the defendant in the present action, commenced an action in the superior court of the state of California, in and for the county of Los Angeles, against her husband for separate maintenance, and in her complaint therein…