Gilpin v. Gilpin

This case is without precedent in our court.

In September, 1942, petitioner married Christos Moraitopoules in Kingston, British West Indies; without bothering to divorce him or to make a more than perfunctory investigation as to whether he was still living (which in fact he was), petitioner elected to decide that he was dead and in 1945 coolly and boldly married Lowell Gilpin, the respondent. In the marriage license application she falsely alleged that she was unmarried.

This marriage, therefore, was absolutely void and bigamistic. (McCullen v. McCullen, 162 App. Div. 599.)

The respondent is…