MAGOWAN v. MAGOWAN


19 N.Y.2d 296 (1967)

Rue Magowan, Appellant, v. Edward S. Magowan, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Ives Rudell and Sidney H. Zuckerman for appellant.

Laszlo Kormendi for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN and KEATING concur; Judge BREITEL taking no part.


Per Curiam.

The plaintiff wife brought this suit against her second husband for a separation and he counterclaimed for an annulment on the ground that she was still married to another at the time she purportedly wed him, the defendant, in 1957. More specifically, the defendant urges that the Alabama decree of divorce which the plaintiff obtained in 1955 from her first husband was jurisdictionally void. For her part...

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