Risk v. Risk

This is an action by the plaintiff husband to annul his marriage to the defendant upon the ground that at the time of contracting same, the latter had a husband living, from whom she had not been divorced. There is no issue of either marriage.

The defendant denies that she had another husband when she married plaintiff. She asserts, however, by way of an affirmative defense, that she had been married to one Lee Schnur in the city of New York, but that on May 7, 1934, the Second General Court of the First Instance of the First Judicial District of the State of Morelos, Republic of Mexico,…