Baylis v. Baylis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the. plaintiff, Daniel H. Baylis, from part of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 12th day of November, 1910, upon the decision of the court rendered after a. trial at the Nassau Special Term, with notice of ,an intention to'' bring up for review part of an interlocutory judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of August, 1910.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The plaintiff married the defendant relying solely upon her statement that she had obtained in Connecticut an absolute divorce from her husband, one Bath. The plaintiff appeals from so much of the judgment herein declaring the second ' marriage void as denies him the custody of the issue of the same, and decrees its incapacity to succeed to his property. His contention is that he married in good faith, believing justifiably that the former marriage had been duly dissolved, and relying defensibly• upon defendant’s advice to that effect. Hence he invokes for himself and the child the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Earle v. EarleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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