Randlett v. Rice
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal, by the administrator of the estate of Thomas L. Randlett, from a decree of the Probate Court allowing $1500 to Louisa E. Randlett, as the widow of the intestate, upon her petition for an allowance out of the estate of her deceased husband, under the Pub.
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Appeal, by the administrator of the estate of Thomas L. Randlett, from a decree of the Probate Court allowing $1500 to Louisa E. Randlett, as the widow of the intestate, upon her petition for an allowance out of the estate of her deceased husband, under the Pub. Sts. c. 135, § 2. The appellant specified the following reason for appeal: “ Because at the time of her alleged marriage to said Thomas L. Randlett she had a lawful husband then alive, whose name is Ira Alexander, and therefore the alleged marriage with Thomas L. Randlett was illegal and void, and she is not his widow.” The case was…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The only question is whether the petitioner had a lawful husband alive when she married the decedent, in 1880.
She was married in 1867, in this State, to one Ira Alexander, who is still living. The petitioner contends that that marriage was invalid, for the reason that Alexander then had a wife living. He was married in 1864, in Portsmouth, Hew Hampshire, to a woman with whom he was living as his wife in Portsmouth at the time of his marriage to the petitioner, and he continued cohabiting with both for nearly a year, until the discovery by the petitioner of his relations with the other woman.…
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