Legal Opinion
Reiss v. Reiss
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 18, 1970No. 6 Div. 51PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THAGARD, Presiding Judge.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”
Sir Walter Scott
The appellee in this case, Mrs. Ethel Reiss, flew to Jefferson County, Alabama, from her home in New York on June 11, 1958, and wove for herself a tangled web by going to some office in Birmingham the next day and signing a deposition that she and her husband were bona fide resident citizens of the State of Alabama and thereby obtaining a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of statutory cruelty.
More than ten years later she again flew from her New York home to Winston…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Sharp v. EdwardsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
- St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co. v. DennisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
- Benson-Jackson-Mathers Post No. 5106 v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
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3Cited by7 opinions
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