McDonald's Estate

Citations

• 268 Pa. 486
• 112 A. 98
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 723

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Return day — Mistake—Parties—Procedure — Acts of April 22, 1905, P. L. 298, and April 20, 1911, P. L. 71.</p> <p>1. Where the return day of a libel in divorce is fixed at too early a date, the mistake is merely an irregularity which does not render the decree void, but only voidable, at the instance of a party to the proceeding, if a proper and prompt application to open it is tlier'ein made.</p> <p>2. One not a party to the divorce cannot be heard in any proceeding to make objection to the decree upon this ground.</p> <p>3. Quaere, whether the differences of procedure specified in the Acts of April 22, 1905, P. L. 293, and April 20, 1911, P. L. 71, must not be resolved in favor of the method provided by the latter.</p>