United States v. Robbins

GRUBB, District Judge.

During the Second World War the plaintiff paid monthly allotments to the defendant, Lillian Robbins, as the wife of a soldier-husband. This is an action for the recovery of dependency payments which it is alleged were erroneously paid to Lillian Robbins. The evidence submitted in the trial before the court showed that Maynard Robbins was divorced in Wisconsin from his first wife on April 4, 1942; that on September 1, 1942, Maynard and Lillian Robbins went through a marriage ceremony in Indiana notwithstanding the fact that under Wisconsin law Maynard Robbins’ divorce was…