MATTHEWS v. MATTHEWS

No. C-442.

141 So.2d 799 (1962)

MARY MATTIE MATTHEWS, APPELLANT, v. COSSIE S. MATTHEWS, APPELLEE.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Barrow, Crestview, for appellant.

Adams & Henderson, Crestview, for appellee.


RAWLS, Judge.

Appellant wife has appealed from a final decree of divorce entered in favor of the appellee husband and seeks reversal on jurisdictional grounds. She further contends that the decree is not supported by the evidence.

We are basically concerned with the jurisdictional question. The husband was adjudicated a mental incompetent in the State of Virginia in 1955. He "walked out" of the state hospital in 1956 and came to Okaloosa County, Florida, where...

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