Freeman v. Freeman

Van Fleet, V. C.

This is an application for alimony and counsel fees pendente lite. The complainant sues to obtain.a decree declaring void ah initio a marriage ceremony performed betweeen the defendant and himself, on the ground that when the ceremony was performed the defendant was incapable of contracting a valid marriage with him, because she was then the wife of another man. The defendant admits that, prior to her marriage to the complainant, she married a man by the name of Evans, at her aunt’s house in Dayton, Ohio, who was still living when she married the complainant. But she claims,…