Shenker v. Shenker

This is an action by a wife to declare invalid both a Mexican decree of divorce procured by the bus-band and bis subsequent marriage to tbe codefendant (second wife) in Connecticut. Tbe latter requests an adjudication of her rights as well as alimony and counsel fee. The husband has apparently tired of the second wife and is presently living alone, but he supports both wives. There are two children, now grown, of the first marriage. The second marriage has produced no issue.

The plaintiff wife has established upon trial that the Mexican divorce decree was procured after a few hours’ stay in…