Polakoff v. Polakoff

I find as a fact that the defendant secured a so-called divorce against the plaintiff some time in July, 1936, in the city of Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and that the court there had no jurisdiction over the parties (See Matter of Alzmann v. Maher, 231 App. Div. 139) and that he thereafter married another woman with whom he has been residing openly and notoriously as man and wife in the county of Queens, State of New York.

If this were all that were involved in this case, I would find that the defendant was guilty of cruel and inhuman conduct so as to entitle the plaintiff to a judicial…