Post v. Post
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Augustus T. Post, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of February, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Action to annul a marriage on the ground that at the time the contract was entered into the defendant had another husband. There is little or no dispute between the parties as to the material facts. It appears that on January 5, 1871, the defendant was married in the State of Louisiana to one John S. Keaghey; that after the marriage they resided in Louisiana until November, 1875, when they moved to Galveston, Tex., and there continued to live together as husband and wife until some time in May, 1878, when, for sufficient cause, the defendant left her husband and went to New…
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