Coast v. Coast

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an action for divorce originally filed in the District Court, 71st Judicial District, for Gregg County. A somewhat extended statement of the record taken from the transcript is essential to a consideration of the issues involved in the appeal.

Appellee, on the 8th day of December, 1936, filed his petition for divorce from appellant in the 71st District Court for Gregg County; the petition contained the requisite jurisdictional averments and stated a cause of action for divorce; December 19, 1936, appellant filed her answer thereto; December 31, 1936, a hearing was…