Olsen v. Olsen

In this action plaintiff husband seeks an annulment. The complaint alleges that defendant wife was divorced from her first husband in Alabama on July 15, 1955 by a decree of divorce which prohibited her from marrying any person other than her former husband for a period of 60 days from the date of the decree, and that plaintiff and defendant were married in Roslyn, New York, on July 30,1955. The action is, thus, predicated on the validity rather than any claimed invalidity, of the Alabama decree.

At the opening of the trial, defendant’s attorney moved for judgment on the ground that the…