Lacey v. Lacey

This is an action for divorce. The defense is that the alleged act of adultery was not meretricious in that the plaintiff had theretofore procured a decree of divorce against the defendant pursuant to which he had legally married the alleged corespondent. The plaintiff claims that this decree is void and of no effect.

The parties were married at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, on the twenty-third day of September, 1884, and they moved to Tacoma in the State of Washington in the month of Hay, 1888, and adopted that place as their residence. Tacoma continued to be the place of their…