Kelso v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a suit for divorce and alimony is “strictly a personal action, sounding in tort, and by all the rules and maxims of law lies (dies) with the person”
• noting that an entry of divorce nunc pro tunc was improper because the date upon which the trial court intended to grant the parties’ divorce was uncertain
• “The judicial power is ended when a party dies before the entry of a decree . . . .”
• “[I]f an action for a divorce is commenced, and one of the parties dies thereafter, but before the entry of the final decree, the action abates.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).