Court Opinion

ID: 9683817
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:37:23.765671+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:50.449756
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING OR TRANSFER TO SUPREME COURT
PER CURIAM.
Gloria has filed a motion for rehearing or to transfer to the Supreme Court in which she alleges the opinion denied her the right under Rule 55.06 to present alternate theories of recovery and is in conflict with Flickinger v. Flickinger, 494 S.W.2d 388 (Mo.App.1973) and Fleming v. Fleming, 562 S.W.2d 168 (Mo.App.1978) because the order of July 22, 1976, was made without a hearing.
This court held that Gloria had abandoned her attack on the July 22, 1976 order *147modifying the decree as to custody by trying her case on the theory that the best interest of the children required the modification rather than the invalidity of the pri- or order. Of course, this court is not holding that Gloria could not bring alternate theories in one action as permitted by Rule 55.06. The ruling was that Gloria had pleaded the invalidity of the prior order and the best interest of the children as grounds for modifying the previous order and had abandoned the invalidity ground in the hearing.
Gloria now urges that the previous order granting custody to Ben was void because it was entered without notice or hearing. The only evidence before this court concerning the order of July 22, 1976, is a copy of such order attached to the back of the transcript. The order states that the court heard evidence on September 30,1975. No transcript or other record of the proceedings in connection with the order of July 22, 1976, have been filed here, nor was such presented to the trial court. Thus, all of Gloria’s arguments concerning the failure of the court to hold an evidentiary hearing before changing custody from her to Ben is made without benefit of evidence and in the face of the judgment recital that an evidentiary hearing was held. Thus, even if this court had concluded that Gloria had not abandoned her claim concerning the invalidity of the July 22, 1976, order there would be no evidence before this court upon which a finding could be based to sustain her position concerning its invalidity.
The motion for rehearing is overruled and the motion for transfer to the Supreme Court is denied.