Klaas v. Klaas
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 147, April T., 1900, by libellant, in suit of Albert R. Klaas against Marie Klaas, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1899, No. 395½, dismissing libel in divorce. Opinion by W. W. Porter, J. Libel in divorce. The following facts appear from the findings of the court be. low: 1. At some time about 1875, William Lake married one, Mary Morgan.
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Appeal, No. 147, April T., 1900, by libellant, in suit of Albert R. Klaas against Marie Klaas, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1899, No. 395½, dismissing libel in divorce. Opinion by W. W. Porter, J. Libel in divorce. The following facts appear from the findings of the court be. low: 1. At some time about 1875, William Lake married one, Mary Morgan. Without any divorce from her, about 1880, he married one, Kate Rupplehauser, and without any divorce from either of them, in 1884 he married Marie Roth, the respondent. 2. In 1885 he was prosecuted in the quarter sessions of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
William W. Pobteb, J.,
The libellant married the respondent on September 7,1897. The application is for a decree of nullifieation of the marriage under the provisions of the act of April 14,1859, on the ground that the respondent had a husband living at the time of the marriage to the present libellant. The respondent married one, William Lake, on August 14,1884. Believing Lake to be dead, she so represented the fact to the present libellant before marriage. She now says that she made no positive assertion of his death, but only that she believed him to be dead. In May, 1899, the…
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