Baugh ex rel. McGuire v. Baugh
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne. Bill to set aside a divorce. The bill was filed by the infant children of the parties divorced, appearing by their maternal grandmother as their next friend. Their mother had obtained the divorce for adultery, and the father had married again, and both parents- and the second wife were made defendants. The first wife made no defense, it being set forth that by the collusion of the father and the second wife she had been tricked into obtaining the divorce.
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Appeal from Wayne. Bill to set aside a divorce. The bill was filed by the infant children of the parties divorced, appearing by their maternal grandmother as their next friend. Their mother had obtained the divorce for adultery, and the father had married again, and both parents- and the second wife were made defendants. The first wife made no defense, it being set forth that by the collusion of the father and the second wife she had been tricked into obtaining the divorce. The bill sought to have the divorce set aside and the second marriage declared void. It was dismissed on demurrer, and…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
A bill was filed by four infants of tender-years by a next friend, to vacate a divorce granted to their mother, Margaret Baugh, against their father, John B. Baugh, and bringing in as co-defendants their father and mother and their father’s second wife. The ground of interference is alleged collusion between their father and mother. The bill is not sworn to. A demurrer was put-in by the defendants John and Addie Baugh and the bill was dismissed. An appeal is brought to this court.
The jurisdiction over divorce is purely statutory, and the legislative authority has not seen fit to allow any but…
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