Legal Opinion

Hubbard v. . Hubbard

New York Court of Appeals

Decided February 24, 1920PublishedCited by 62 opinions

Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 19, 1919, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court on trial at Special Term. ' The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.

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Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 19, 1919, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court on trial at Special Term. ' The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The public policy of this state, as declared by this court, denies the validity here of foreign decrees of divorce obtained under the circumstances here disclosed. (Matter of Kimball, 155 N. Y. 62; Haddock Case, 201 U. S. 562;…

1Opinion of the CourtCollin, J.

The action is to obtain the judgment annulling the marriage of the plaintiff and defendant. The judgment of the Special Term dismissing the complaint was unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division.

The cardinaliacts as found by the decision of the Special Term are: July 8, 1896, the parties intermarried at Bismarck, North Dakota. The plaintiff, the husband, seeks to annul this marriage upon the ground that the defendant was not then legally and validly divorced from her former husband who was then living. Each of the plaintiff and defendant was at the time of the marriage, and for several…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Haddock v. HaddockSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  2. Hunt v. . HuntNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
  3. Atherton v. AthertonSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
  4. Marshall v. . ShermanNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
  5. Olmsted v. OlmstedSupreme Court of the United States · 1910

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3Cited by62 opinions

  1. Krause v. KrauseNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
  2. In Re the Estate of HolmesNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
  3. Fischer v. FischerNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
  4. Gould v. . GouldNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
  5. Hoffman v. KnollmanOhio Supreme Court · 1939

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