Rankin v. Rankin
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jefferson Circuit Court. — Hon. James D. Fox, Judge. (1) Plaintiff’s petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
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Appeal from the Jefferson Circuit Court. — Hon. James D. Fox, Judge. (1) Plaintiff’s petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The mere facts as alleged in tbe petition of marriage and decree of divorce granted defendant in Texas, in March, 1889, in which no reference is made to children, and that plaintiff, has had care and custody of the children and has cared for, maintained, and supplied them with necessaries, and has paid out certain sums therefor, do not make the father liable to the mother for the support of their children. In order to make the father…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
The parties of this suit were married on the twenty-eighth of June, 1878, and lived as husband and wife *339jo- about ten years at DeSoto^ Missouri. Two children, a son and daughter, were bom of this marriage. On the fourteenth of March, 1899, defendant, who had moved to Texas, leaving -his wife and children in this state, obtained a divorce in the Texas court, on the ground of abandonment by his wife; neither she nor her children being within the jurisdiction of that court, no award of the custody and control of the children was mgde in its decree. The plaintiff in this case, who was the former…
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