Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part
Golden v. Golden
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided April 24, 1937No. 4187Published
1Concurring in part, dissenting in partHudspeth, Chief Justice
I am in full accord with the holding of the majority that a probate judge has authority to perform the marriage ceremony, but am not able to concur in the affirmance of the judgment awarding $4,000 to appellee and her attorneys, nor in the ruling on the plea of estoppel.
A satisfactory solution of the divorce problem has not yet been found. Mr. Justice Swift, after administering the English divorce laws for seventeen years, lately pronounced them wicked and cruel. The Russians, at the other extreme, found their too liberal divorce laws unsatisfactory. Our own Legislature only a few years ago…
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