Morice v. Morice

After the wife filed a suit for separation in Orleans Parish, the husband filed a suit for separation in Jefferson Parish. The wife made a general appearance in the Jefferson Parish suit before filing an exception of lis pendens, which was overruled because she had waived the objection. C.C.P. art. 925.

The wife then excepted to the Jefferson Parish court’s jurisdiction over the subject matter. The trial court overruled the exception, but on the husband’s application for supervisory writs the intermediate court reversed, citing State ex rel. Marston v. Marston, 67 So.2d 587 (La.1953), for the…