Boyd v. Boyd

The judgment here annulled a marriage contracted by plaintiff and defendant Boyd, which according to the certificate of marriage occurred on February 8, 1881, although the plaintiff testified that she believed that the marriage was celebrated on that day in 1887. The date of the celebration of the marriage, however, does not affect the issues here. The marriage was adjudged void from its inception, because the defendant Boyd, it was found, had a wife living by a former marriage, which had not been dissolved but was in force at the time plaintiff married defendant Boyd.

The appellant here is an…