Van Slyke v. Van Slyke

Complainant and defendant (he is now deceased) were married in Allegan, Mich., April 9, 1912, she having been previously married and having been, by a decree of the circuit court, in chancery, for Allegan county, made December 5, 1911, divorced from her former husband. Complainant filed her bill in this cause in April, 1913, praying that the marriage with defendant be dissolved. Defendant answered, but not upon oath, and in his answer he set up, among other matters, that complainant perpetrated upon him a fraud in marrying him because she had not been legally divorced from her former husband.…