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Laird v. Laird

Laird v. Laird
Minnesota Supreme Court · Decided May 20, 1921 · Taylor
149 Minn. 104; 182 N.W. 955; 1921 Minn. LEXIS 603 (Minnesota Reports)

Counsel

James P. McMahon, for appellant., A. W. & P. W. Sawyer, for respondent.

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Opinion of the Court

Taylor, O.

This is an appeal from an order refusing to set aside the judgment and permit the defendant to answer in an action for divorce.

The action was brought by Willard I. Laird in the district court of Steele county in this state. The summons and complaint were served on Mrs. Laird personally in the city of Chicago’, Illinois, on April 26, 1916. She took them to an Illinois attorney and had him bring an action in her behalf in that state for a separate maintenance, and procure a tem*105porary injunction from the Illinois court restraining Mr. Laird from prosecuting the divorce action in Minnesota during the pendency of 'the Illinois action. The Illinois action was tried in the latter part of 1917, and resulted in a judgment, rendered in the early part of January, 1918, granting Mrs. Laird the sum of $85 per month for her maintenance, and vacating the injunction restraining Mr. Laird from prosecuting the divorce action. Thereafter, he brought the divorce action to a hearing, and on February 23, 1918, a judgment was rendered therein granting him an absolute divorce. This judgment also provided for paying Mrs. Laird the sum of $85 per month as alimony, the same amount allowed her for maintenance by the Illinois court. Mrs. Laird never appeared in the divorce action in any manner at any time. The $85 per month has been paid to and received by her regularly ever since it was awarded to her. On June 19, 1919, Mr. Laird married again, at Owatonna in Steele county, and ever since has been living with his second wife. On March 26, 1920, notice of a motion to vacate the judgment of divorce was served on him. From the denial of this motion the present appeal is taken.

The only matter of any merit presented in support of the motion is the claim that Mr. Laird was not a bona fide resident of the state of Minnesota. The court found as a fact that he had been a resident of this state for a full year immediately before the commencement of the action and this finding is well sustained by the record.

The defendant also asked to have the judgment vacated and for per-, mission to answer, on the ground that her failure to answer was due to mistake and excusable neglect, but the statute permitting the vacation of a judgment on that ground does not apply to a final judgment in an action for divorce. G. S. 1913, § 7786. Moreover her claim in that respect is clearly shown to be unfounded.

Order affirmed.

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