Legal Opinion

McGown v. McGown

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 15, 1897PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Mary E. Bell,' sued herein as Mary E. McGown, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of - Hew York on the 14th day of January, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Hew York ,Special Term.

1Opinion of the Court

Patterson, J.:

By the judgment appealed from, an absolute divorce was granted to the'plaintiff from -the defendant on the. ground of the adultery of the' latter. That adultery consisted in her cohabitation with another- man than the plaintiff, with which other man - she entered into a ceremonial marriage in Horth Dakota,-on September 24,1896, and with Whom she has since lived and cohabited as his wife in the' city of Hew York, She claims as a defense to this action that her present so-called matrimonial relations with the man she married in Dakota, are not adulterous, and that her cohabitation…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bell v. BellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Ackerman v. . AckermanNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
  2. Berney v. AdrianceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
  3. McGown v. McGownNew York Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Winston v. WinstonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
  5. Bailie v. BailieAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898

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