15 S.D. 80 | S.D. | 1901
On the ad day of December, 1899, a motion, supported by affidavits, and specifying want of jurisdiction, fraud, and deceit, and insufficiency of the evidence, was made in the trial court to vacate a decree of divorce entered in favor of plaintiff on the 28th day of July, 1898, and this appeal is from an order overruling the same.
. Defendant being a non-resident of this state, substituted service was resorted to by the issuance of a summons, and its publication for the required period, and by which notice was given that the complaint was filed in the clerk’s office on the 9th day of November, 1896, while, as a matter of fact, it was not so filed until a few days prior to the entry of the decree here sought to be annulled. From the entire record it reasonably appears that plaintiff had been a resident of this state for the necessary time, that the affidavit upon which the order for substituted service was based, and the publication made pursuant thereto, substantially comply with the statute, and the charge of fraud and deceit in obtaining the divorce is not sustainable.
The failure to file the complaint, as required by statute, when considered with the further fact that there was seemingly an unwar