Tefft v. Tefft

This was a petition for a divorce. It consisted of two paragraphs. The first sets forth that the parties were married on the 14th day of October, 1839, and, as a cause for divorce, alleges that the defendant was, at the time of her marriage to the petitioner, the wife of another person named.in the petition, to whom she had previously been married, and who was then living.

The second paragraph alleges that the parties were married as aforesaid, and states as a cause of divorce, that the defendant falsely and fraudulently represented to the petitioner that she was sole and unmarried, and had no…