Carlisle v. Allen

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

PIERCE, Justice,

for the court:

¶ 1. A divorced couple, Charles Allen and Janet Allen, filed a petition to revoke their divorce. While the petition was pending, Charles died. The chancellor initially quashed the motion. On rehearing, the chancellor found that Janet had produced sufficient evidence of reconciliation and entered an order revoking the divorce. Arthur Carlisle, the administrator of Charles’s estate, appealed on his behalf. The Court of Appeals — finding cases in which a party to a pending divorce died prior to a final entry of divorce to be analogous — held…