Wright v. Wright

The petitioner was married at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on August 4,1921, with due legal ceremony to the respondent, who had been divorced from a former wife in Massachusetts by a decree entered upon a libel filed by her which became absolute on November 12, 1920, and who was, by force of G. L. c. 208, § 24, prohibited from marrying again before November 12,1922. He knew, but she did not know, that he could not then be legally married in this Commonwealth. Both resided here, and went to Rhode Island for the express purpose of marriage, intending not to reside in Rhode Island but to return to…