Schaffer v. Krestovnikow

Backes, V. C.

This is a petition for an annulment of marriage and a counterclaim for support under the statute. The petitioner and defendant are of the Jewish faith and were married in Husatin, Russia, January 15th, 1903, by a rabbi. They immediately came to this country, settling in Elizabeth, where they cohabited until the latter part of September, 1916, when the petitioner-abandoned the defendant on the pretence that he had then discovered that she was not divorced, as she represented, at the time he married her. The petitioner has attained some prominence in Elizabeth and, due to the joint…