Steinbroner

Action for divorce. Judgment went for plaintiff, from which, and an order of court granting plaintiff alimony pendente lite, defendant appeals.

As disclosed by the record and argument in appellant’s brief, the only ground upon which he based his defense to the action was a decree of the court of common pleas of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, together with an exemplified copy of the record therein, all of which were duly presented at the trial, showing that at a time antedating the commencement of this action, the bonds of matrimony theretofore contracted between plaintiff and defendant,' as alleged herein, had been dissolved and a divorce granted him from said plaintiff by said decree so rendered by the common pleas court of Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

As to this defense, however, the court found that, under the laws of Pennsylvania existing at the time, it was necessary in order to vest the court with jurisdiction to entertain an action for divorce, that the applicant therefor be at the time of commencing the suit a bona fide resident of such state, as well as such resident for a period of one year immediately preceding the bringing of such action; that defendant herein,…