Andris v. Andris

This, a divorce case, originated in the Court of Common Pleas, Hannibal, Missouri. Plaintiff, respondent here, filed a suit seeking a divorce from his wife, who filed an answer admitting the marriage but denying the other allegations of the petition. She did not file a cross-bill. The trial court granted plaintiff a divorce and defendant appealed. The case reached the St. Louis Court of Appeals where the decree of the circuit court was reversed with directions to dismiss plaintiff's petition. One of the judges dissented and requested that the case be certified to this court because he deemed…