Legal Opinion
Engel v. Engel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 14, 1949Published
1Opinion of the CourtShientag, J.
This is an appeal by the defendants from an order denying their motion to dismiss the amended complaint for failure, on its face, to state a cause of action. The action is for a declaratory judgment adjudicating that plaintiff Engel and the defendant, now known as Helen Brooks, are husband and wife and that her purported divorce from him was invalid.
According to the allegations of the amended complaint, Engel married Helen Brooks in Carson City, Nevada, in 1941; there are no children of that marriage; Helen Brooks obtained an ex parte decree of divorce against the plaintiff in June, 1948,…
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