Kini Maka v. Ah Fai

OPINION BY

HARRIS, J.

The libellant, a Hawaiian woman, files a petition for the annulment of her marriage with the libellee, a Chinaman, alleging that she had been married to tlie libellee in this country on the 15th day of December, 1870, but that the libellee, All Eai, had been married previously in Canton in China, and that the wife which he then married is now living and has never been divorced and therefore remains his lawful wife.

The petitioner asks that her marriage with the libellee may be declared null by the authority of the 1815 Section of the Civil Code, which reads as follows:

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