Merrick v. Merrick

Respondent Elizabeth Merrick was the wife of William H. Merrick and in the year 1920 he obtained against her in this State a decree of absolute divorce. That decree forbade her to remarry during Merrick’s life. Power resided in the court, after the lapse of three years from the rendition of the decree, to modify the judgment upon proof of defendant’s good conduct subsequent to the dissolution of the marriage (Dom. Rel. Law [Cons. Laws, ch. 14], § 8, as amd. by Laws 1919, ch. 265), but, without procuring such a modification, respondent in 1925, during the lifetime of Merrick, married appellant…