Case Name: Delia Thomas, Defendant in Error, vs. J. S. Thomas, Plaintiff in Error
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1876-10
Citations: 64 Mo. 353
Docket Number: 
Parties: Delia Thomas, Defendant in Error, vs. J. S. Thomas, Plaintiff in Error.
Judges: All the judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 353–354

Head Matter:
Delia Thomas, Defendant in Error, vs. J. S. Thomas, Plaintiff in Error.
I. Divorce — Decree in motion to set aside — Record.—The Supreme Court will not examine an appeal from a decree in a divorce suit where the record fails to show that a motion to set aside the decree was disposed of.
Error to Joplin County Court of Common Pleas.
Ewing, Smith Sf Pope, for Plaintiff in Error.
T. J. Howell, with Waldo P. Johnson, for Defendant in Error.

Opinion:
Hough, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit for divorce, instituted in the Joplin court of common pleas. At the June term, 1874, a decree of divorce a vinculo matrimonii was rendered in favor of the complainant, and at the same term the defendant filed a motion to set that decree aside. It does not appear from the record that this motion was ever disposed of. The present writ of error seems to have been sued out prematurely.
Until the motion to set aside the decree was overruled by the court there was no judgment from which an appeal could be taken, or which could be reviewed on writ of error.
The writ must therefore be dismissed.
All the judges concur.