Pickard v. Pickard

Oliver, J.-

Plaintiff, Valeria Pickard, had been a resident of Kansas. Defendant, William A. Pickard, was a resident of Jefferson County, Iowa. They became acquainted through a matrimonial agency in November 1948. Plaintiff was fifty-six years old, defendant seventy-two. Defendant had been divorced in Iowa. Plaintiff was separated from her then husband, Whitlow, and later secured a divorce from him in Kansas, May 12, 1949. Defendant was advised of these circumstances and that plaintiff could not lawfully marry him in Kansas until six months after her divorce. As 'soon as he learned plaintiff…