Shaver v. Shaver

This is a proceeding initiated by the presiding Judge on his own motion for the purpose of opening a judgment of absolute divorce rendered at the May Term, 1946, of the Superior Court of Durham County in the case entitled “Mary K. Shaver v. Floyd N. Shaver.” The cause was heard below on special appearance of-the plaintiff, Mary K. Shaver- (Carpenter), and motion to quash the attempted service of notice by publication on her.'

This is the fourth appeal to this Court involving efforts to vacate the judgment of divorce.

In Carpenter v. Carpenter, 244 N.C. 286, 93 S.E. 2d 617, Stanley M. Carpenter,…