Legal Opinion
Sutton v. Leib
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 3, 1952No. 143PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
By reason of a divorce in an Illinois state court, with a judgment for monthly installments of alimony until remarriage, petitioner asserts that her divorced husband, the respondent Leib, is liable for unpaid installments of alimony. Asserting diversity jurisdiction, petitioner, a divorcee, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Claim for recovery is made, notwithstanding a later marriage by petitioner to another in Nevada, subsequently annulled in New York, for the period from the Nevada remarriage to her third presumably valid marriage in New…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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3Cited by114 opinions
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