Saperstone v. Saperstone

The parties to this action were married in Buffalo, October 8, 1909. It is the contention of plaintiff that prior to the marriage defendant told him that she was *632a widow. Some time after, the marriage plaintiff discovered that his wife was not a widow, hut that her first husband was still living in Russia, where defendant had formerly resided.

Defendant denied on the trial that she had represented herself to be a widow, but alleged that prior to her marriage to plaintiff she told him she had a divorce from her first husband, which last statement plaintiff disputed.

On the trial defendant…