Bates v. Bodie
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP NEBRASKA. Plaintiff in error, Bates, filed a complaint in divorce against defendant in error in the chancery court of Benton County, State of Arkansas, alleging cruelty and praying for an absolute divorce. Defendant in error filed an answer denying the charge against her and a cross complaint accusing him of cruelty.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP NEBRASKA. Plaintiff in error, Bates, filed a complaint in divorce against defendant in error in the chancery court of Benton County, State of Arkansas, alleging cruelty and praying for an absolute divorce. Defendant in error filed an answer denying the charge against her and a cross complaint accusing him of cruelty. In the cross complaint she alleged that Bates was the owner of real and personal property of the fair value of $75,000, consisting of 320 acres of land in York County, Nebraska, which she described, and lots in Oklahoma, and alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
A motion is made to dismiss on the ground, as contended, that the decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska was based upon a construction of the statutes of Arkansas and concluded therefrom that the District Court of Arkansas “had no jurisdiction to take the Nebraska lands of this plaintiff in error into consideration in fixing the amount of allowance to this defendant in error, and as a matter of fact did not do so.” That this conclusion was reached “by reason of. the peculiar statute of Arkansas which governs and controls the courts of that State in fixing the allowance of alimony to a…
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