Case Name: Bessie A. Edwards, Appellant, v. Arthur H. Edwards, Respondent
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1934-01-29
Citations: 228 Mo. App. 449
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bessie A. Edwards, Appellant, v. Arthur H. Edwards, Respondent.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 228
Pages: 449–450

Head Matter:
Bessie A. Edwards, Appellant, v. Arthur H. Edwards, Respondent.
66 S. W. (2d) 969.
Kansas City Court of Appeals.
January 29, 1934.
E. M. Atwell for appellant.
No brief for respondent.

Opinion:
SHAIN, P. J.
Bessie Edwards, plaintiff, was granted an absolute divorce from Arthur H. Edwards, defendant, at the January term,-1933, of tbe Circuit Court of Miller County, Missouri. •
After adjournment of tbe said term and in vacation, to-wit-: on March 22, 1933, tbe defendant filed a motion to set tbe decree of divorce aside, and on April 3, 1933, in vacation, tbe court entered a decree setting aside tbe judgment for divorce rendered at tbe January term as aforesaid and plaintiff has duly appealed- from tbe order setting aside tbe decree.
Plaintiff presents five assignments of error to which we need but give consideration of one assignment, to-wit:
'The judgment of divorce is a permanent one, and cannot be altered'by the-trial court after the expiration of the term of court at which'it was rendered." ~ " '
' It-is well settled that a "Judgment granting divorce held final, in absence of any voluntary action against it by-court or motion filed against it at- ¡judgment term. " [Secs. 1360, 1361, R. S. 1929; Laweing v. Laweing, 21 S. W. (2d) 2; Sanders v. Sanders, 14 S. W. (2d) 458; Sec. 1552, R. S. 1929; Mefford v. Mefford, 26 S. W. (2d) 1804.]
The-decree and judgment of the circuit court setting aside the decree of divorce is-reversed.
All concur.