Hoyt v. Hoyt

This is an appeal from a judgment in a divorce action in favor of the plaintiff wife against the defendant husband.

In his answer, the defendant husband had pleaded as an affirmative defense a prior judgment of divorce which he had obtained in Pennsylvania. Upon the trial, the proof showed *581that the parties had been married in Binghamton, New York, on February 15, 1947, and had lived together in that city and in a neighboring town until they separated in July, 1952. The plaintiff continued to reside in Broome County but the defendant moved to Hallstead, a small town across the State line in…