Harris v. Harris

Plaintiff appeals from an order of the Wayne Circuit Court denying his request for an annulment of his marriage to defendant. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiff married Estelle Mills Harris in 1945. Although plaintiff never divorced Estelle, he nonetheless married defendant in Michigan in 1977. Plaintiff maintains that, at the time of his marriage to defendant, both he and defendant knew of his previous marriage and knew that he had not been divorced from Estelle. Plaintiff and defendant had one child, Samantha Harris, born March 4, 1978. Plaintiff’s first wife, Estelle, died in 1986.

Plaintiff…