t properly have held that the Rice divorce decree was void for
every purpose because it was rendered by a State court which never
obtained jurisdiction of the nonresident defendant. "But if we adhere to
the holdings that the Nevada court had power over her for the purpose of
blasting her marriage and opening the way to a successor, I do not see
the justice of inventing a compensating confusion in the device of
divisible divorce by which the parties are half-bound and half-free and
which permits Rice to have a wife who cannot become his widow and to
leave a widow who was no longer his wife." Ibid. 676, 679, 680.

[70] Vermont violated the clause in sustaining a collateral attack on a
Florida divorce decree, the presumption of Florida's jurisdiction over
the cause and the parties not having been overcome by extrinsic evidence
or the record of the case. Cook _v._ Cook, 342 U.S. 126 (1951). The
Sherrer and Coe cases were relied upon. There seems, therefore, to be no
doubt of their continued vitality.

[71] Barber _v._ Barber, 323 U.S. 77, 84 (1944).

[72] Sistare _v._ Sistare, 218 U.S. 1, 11 (1910). _See also_ Barber _v._
Barber, 21 How. 582 (1859); Lynde _v._ Lynde, 181 U.S. 183, 186-187
(1901); Bates _v._ Bodie, 245 U.S. 520 (1918); Audubon _v._ Shufeldt,
181 U.S. 575, 577 (1901); Yarbrough _v._ Yarbrough, 290 U.S. 202 (1933);
Loughran _v._ Loughran, 292 U.S. 216 (1934).

[73] Griffin _v._ Griffin, 327 U.S. 220 (1946).

[74] Ibid. 228. An alimony case of a quite extraordinary pattern was
that of Sutton _v._ Leib. On account of the diverse citizenship of the
parties, who had once been husband and wife, the case was brought by the
latter in a federal court in Illinois. Her suit was to recover unpaid
alimony which was to continue until her remarriage. To be sure, she had,
as she confessed, remarried in Nevada, but the marriage had been
annulled in New York on the ground that the man was already married,
inasmuch as his divorce from his previous wife was null and void, she
having neither entered a personal appearance nor been personally served.
The Court, speaking by Justice Reed, held that the New York annulment of
the Nevada marriage must be given full faith and credit in Illinois, but
left Illinois to decide for itself the effect of the annulment upon the
obligations of petitioner's first husband. Sutton _v._ Leib, 342 U.S.
402 (1952).

[75] Halvey _v._ Halvey, 330 U.S. 610, 615 (1947).

[76] Johnson _v._ Muelberger