Gross v. Ward

WADDILL, Commissioner.

In this original proceeding Dortha Nan Gross seeks to prohibit the respondent, Honorable Don A. Ward as Judge of the Perry Circuit Court, from proceeding further in an action for divorce filed by her husband, Charles Gross.

The dispositive question is whether Dortha was a nonresident of Kentucty on November 16, 1964, when the action was filed, as that term is used in KRS 452.470. This statute provides:

“An action for alimony or divorce must be brought in the county where the wife usually resides, if she have an actual residence in this state; if not, in the county of the…