Hofmann v. Hofmann
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis B. F. Hofmann, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 7th day of July, 1920, granting plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, consisting of the complaint and demurrer thereto, and overruling the demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The judgment demanded is a permanent separation. The facts alleged in the complaint, which are therein stated to have caused the plaintiff acute mental suffering and distress and to constitute the grounds of cruelty and inhuman treatment and improper conduct, relate entirely to the defendant’s having obtained a decree of divorce from the plaintiff in the State of Pennsylvania, and caused the same to be served upon her, and thereafter contracted and entered into a marriage with another woman, with whom the defendant resided in the borough of The Bronx. It is alleged that the defendant…
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