Pettit v. Pettit
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Martha Pettit, by James Noonan, her guardian ad litem, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Fulton ón the 22d day of November, 1904,' upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Fulton Special Term dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The action is brought to obtain a decree annulling the marriage between plaintiff and defendant on the ground that it was void because defendant had a wife living at the time.
In October, 1902, the wife of defendant procured against him in the Supreme Court of this State an interlocutory judgment of divorce. Shortly after its entry and nearly three months before *313final judgment was entered thereon, the plaintiff and defendant went to the State of Vermont where a marriage ceremony was performed. They immediately returned to this State and lived together as husband and wife until…
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