Fitzpatrick v. Miller

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This is an appeal from the decree of the learned court below dismissing appellant’s libel to annul an alleged bigamous marriage.

The respondent Avas married August 19, 1905, to James Arthur Hammond. On March 27, 1909, her father, as she was not of age, filed a libel in divorce in her behalf in Lycoming County. The case was not diligently prosecuted, so that the master’s hearing was not held until September 21, 1910, and a divorce was not granted until December 2, 1910.

On March 23, 1910, more than eight months before the respondent was divorced, she and libellant…