Di Giovanni v. Di Giovanni

In 1946 petitioner husband obtained a decree dissolving his marriage to respondent wife pursuant to section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law, on the strength of his assertion that 11 years earlier his wife had gone to Abyssinia and disappeared. Subsequent to the decree he remarried. Respondent, his first wife, came to the United States in 1957 and alleges that she brought this motion to vacate and set aside the interlocutory and final orders dissolving the marriage as soon as she learned of the existence of the decree. Special Term granted her motion in all respects, granting leave to…