Rutledge v. Rutledge

This cause comes here from a decree of the Chancery Court of Shelby County, sustaining* a demurrer to the bill of the complainant William Rutledge, seeking* to set aside and have declared null and void the judgment of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, affirmed by the Court of Appeals, and this Court, 196 Tenn. 438, 268 S. W. (2d) 343, awarding the defendant Maudell Rutledge a divorce and alimony.

The theory of complainant’s bill is that at the time he married Maudell Rutledge he had a living wife Evalena Marks Rutledge, whom he married in 1922, and that he had never been divorced from the…