DeHoog v. DeHoog

Bond, J, Plaintiff! sued the defendant for a divorce for alleged indignities rendering her condition [247] intolerable. The defendant answered by a cross bill, seeking a divorce for alleged misconduct of the plaintiff. Issues were made, and the cause submitted to the court for decision. After taking time for advisement, the court rendered a decree in favor of defendant on the cross bill, and adjudged against him the costs of the suit and alimony in gross in favor of plaintiff for $200. This decree was not excepted to, no bill of exceptions containing the evidence was preserved, and no motion for new trial or in arrest filed. The case is brought here on a writ of error, bringing up only the pleadings and judgment. The court should not have adjudged alimony in gross against defendant in a decree of divorce made in his favor. McIntire v. McIntire, 80 Mo. 470. This was error on the face of the record proper, and is reviewable without a bill of exceptions or motion for new trial or in arrest. The judgment will, therefore, be so modified as to strike out therefrom the order adjudging alimony in gross, with directions to the trial court to make an entry accordingly. All concur.