Legal Opinion
Tierney v. Tierney
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 31, 1955PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLtjmmtjs, J.
This is a, libel for annulling the purported marriage between the parties, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 207, § 14, as amended. The main question is, whether at the time when the parties went through a ceremony of marriage on August 16, 1949, J. Paul Tierney already had a wife.
Tierney was divorced from his first wife, Mary Ellen Tierney, in Massachusetts, on her libel, by a decree which became absolute on April 9, 1938. By G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 208, § 24, Tierney was forbidden to marry another within two years after that date. He did marry one Mary Agatha Tierney in Maine on April 9, 1939. The…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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