Cornell v. Cornell

The question here is whether an interlocutory judgment of divorce, entered in a County Clerk’s office in 1915, created substantive rights in the plaintiff by the lapse of three months without any order intercepting the finality of the adjudication. Fifteen years after the interlocutory decree, plaintiff remarried. Eight years after her remarriage her first husband (defendant in the divorce suit) died. Her second husband died after she had cohabited with him as husband and wife for 26 years, leaving a will giving his residuary estate to the intervenor-respondent. . Plaintiff-appellant filed an…