L_ C. F v. D_ H. F

[1] Plaintiff and defendant were formerly husband and wife, the bonds of matrimony between them having been dissolved by a decree of divorce of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis on October 7, 1953. This is an equitable action in which plaintiff, by direct attack, seeks to have a part of that decree of divorce set aside on the alleged ground of fraud. What the plaintiff sought, according to his petition, was to have declared null and void that part of the divorce decree requiring him to support a child born during the existence of the marriage, on the grounds that the child was not…