Hill v. Hill

The Chancellor below dismissed the bill of Petitioner, Tom Hill, seeking to have set aside as fraudulent a divorce decree awarded to defendant, Luella Barron Hill, on January 10,1955, in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee.

Tom Hill has filed the record below in this Court and asks a review of the action of His Honor the Chancellor upon a writ of error.

The parties are Negroes: the petitioner is a minister.

A copy of the divorce decree sought to be held void is not in the record. However, from a copy of the original bill for divorce it does appear that the wife sought a *198divorce on the…