Lambert v. Lambert

The appeal is from a judgment dismissing the complaint in an action by which the plaintiff seeks an annulment of his marriage to the defendant upon the ground that, at the time it was entered into, defendant’s first husband, Alonzo T. Rogers, was living and that her marriage to him was still in force. The answer alleges, among other defenses, that prior to defendant’s marriage to the plaintiff she had been awarded a judgment by the Supreme Court of this State dissolving her first marriage pursuant to section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law. Our decision turns upon the question whether the…