Beck v. Beck

DOGGETT, Justice.

Violet Beck filed a petition for bill of review seeking to set aside a divorce judgment. Following a pre-trial hearing, the trial court dismissed the petition, holding that Violet had failed to make a prima facie showing of her meritorious defense to the divorce action. The court of appeals, in an unpublished opinion with one justice dissenting, affirmed, although on different grounds. The court of appeals assumed, without deciding, that Violet had made out a prima facie defense but nevertheless affirmed the order of dismissal because it concluded that her sworn pleadings, as…