v.
Blanche Mengel and Louis Eckhardt, Sheriff
Under a decree of divorce rendered in a suit brought by this defendant against this plaintiff, there was a decree granting to the plaintiff in that case temporary alimony, and from such decree there was an appeal to this court resulting in an affirmance and the entry of judgment against said defendant on which execution issued with a levy on property of defendant; whereupon this suit was instituted to enjoin the enforcement of the judgment on two grounds: First, that the plaintiff in the divorce suit knowingly, willfully, fraudulently, and corruptly sword falsely in an affidavit supporting her motion for temporary alimony that she had no property nor means of support; and, second, that in the petition in the divorce suit there was no allegation that the application was made in good faith and for the purpose set forth in said petition as required by Code, section 31Y2, in such cases. The foregoing are the facts alleged in plaintiff’s amended and substituted petition, and they are for the purposes of the case admitted by defendant’s demurrer thereto which the court sustained.
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The court did not err in sustaining defendants’ demurrer to plaintiff’s petition, and the judgment is affirmed.
SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION.
The appellant insists, in a petition for a rehearing, that the opinion is counter to decisions of this court on the question of jurisdiction in a divorce proceeding instituted by a petition lacking the essential averment that the application was “made in good faith.” The cases in this court now relied upon are Pinkney v. Pinkney, 4 G. Greene, 324, Lyster v. Lyster, 1 Iowa, 130, Inskeep v. Inskeep, 5 Iowa, 204-208, and Blinn v. Blinn, 113 Iowa, 83. These cases were not cited by appellant on the original submission, and, as we now. think that they are not at all controlling, we might properly refuse to notice the argument based upon them. But, inasmuch as counsel insists we have gone counter to our own prior decisions, and therefore have introduced a confusion into the law of the state, we have thought best to refer to them in this supplemental opinion.
In the Pinhney case there was an appeal by defendant from a decree of divorce granted by default, and one of -several grounds of reversal was that the petition was not sufficient, because in alleging willful absence of defendant as a ground of divorce it was not stated that such absence was without sufficient cause. The court says this omission is fatal, and in other similar respects the petition is held to be fatally defective. But it is not inti [*742] mated in the opinion that the decree was on that account void and would be subject to collateral attack. Without doubt, failure of the plaintiff to allege facts, which by statute are required by mandatory provision to be alleged, would be a ground for reversal, even though the defendant has not raised the specific objection; but it does not follow that the decree based on such petition would be absolutely void and subject to collateral attack. In' the Lyster case nothing is said pertinent to the question now before the court, save that the consent of defendant to. the granting of the divorce prayed for does not relieve the court fi’om the dxxty of inquiring into the case for the purpose of determining whether a ground for divorce in fact exists; and in the -Inskeep case it is said, by way of argument, that if anything like collusion appears the court should not allow any weight to the failure of defendant to deny the misconduct charged. The Blinn case recognizes the duty of the court to refuse a divorce on the ground of collusion, but there is a reversal because the court dismissed the proceeding on that ground, and refused to receive further evidence in response to the showing that the proceeding was- collusive. It is apparent that none of these cases support the contention of appellant that the decree, rendered on the petition not containing some averment required by the statute to be made, is without jurisdiction and subject to collateral attack.
We do not care now to re-examine the authorities cited from other- states, for the reason that we think the abstract proposition is not involved in this case. The defendant in this proceeding filed the petition which is now assailed as having been defective. Before a decree of divorce was rendered, she asked an allowance, of temporary alimony, which was granted. On an appeal to this court the allowance was affirmed. Whether or not a decree of divorce subsequently x-endered on her petition would have been without jurisdiction is, we think, wholly immaterial. [*743] The court did acquire jurisdiction to proceed in the case to the extent of determining whether plaintiff should be allowed temporary alimony for the purpose of its prosecution and for her support- during such prosecution. The defendant in that case, appellant in this, resisted the allowance of such alimony, and subsequently appeared in court in proper manner to have the order modified. With reference to the allowance of alimony, therefore, the court was clearly acting within its jurisdiction, and the enforcement of its order in that respect can not be enjoined by way of a collateral attack. It is also to be noticed that this appellant appealed from a ruling on his application to modify the judgment appealed from, which application also included a prayer for an injunction restraining the order for temporary alimony, and that on this appeal he was unsuccessful. In view- of this record, we see no ground for modifying the conclusion reached in the opinion in respect to the defect in the original petition for divorce.
Other points made in the petition for rehearing are sufficiently covered by the original opinion, and we are satisfied to reaffirm the conclusions there announced.
The petition for rehearing is therefore denied.