Rice v. Rice

Marshall, Justice.

The defendant husband appeals from the order denying his motion to dismiss his wife’s suit for divorce and alimony on the ground of lack of personal jurisdiction.

1. It was not harmful, if error, for the trial judge, hearing the case without a jury, to require the production by the defendant, on the hearing of his motion to dismiss, of certain nonprivileged documents material to the issue of the defendant’s residence, which documents were in the courtroom in the physical possession of the defendant’s counsel and were to have been produced at the rule nisi hearing pursuant to…