Kirk v. Kirk

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

Appellee, Hugh A. Kirk, was granted a divorce from appellant, Mary Jane Kirk, on the ground of three years separation without cohabitation. The principal issue on this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the chancellor’s finding that appellee was a bona fide resident of Arkansas for the statutory period.

The parties were married in 1941 and lived in San Francisco, California, where appellee was employed as a patent attorney for the Shell Development Company until 1945 when they moved to New York where appellee was self-employed as a patent attorney…