Petition of Lieberman

GALSTON, District Judge.

This proceeding presents an unusually interesting situation. The petitioner was born in Russia in 1900. She arrived in the United States in 1913. In October, 1920, she married her mother’s brother. They have three children.. In February, 1942, she sought to file a petition for naturalization and then learned, for the first time, that her marriage was illegal under the laws of the State of New York. Thereupon she and her husband went to Providence, Rhode Island and on May 1, 1942, they were remarried by a rabbi.

The foregoing facts were outlined to the court, and with…