AN AMERICAN DIVORCE.
ALLEGATION OF BIGAMY
PETITION IN NEW ZEALAND
(By Telegraph.—Press Association ) WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
An unusual situation in New Zealand confronted the Chief Justice today in a petition for nullity, when an allegation of bigamy was preferred against the respondent by petitioner on the ground that although, .when the lady married him in Auckland, she had secured a divorce from her previous husband at Bono, she was still married to her former husband according to the laws of New York Stale, where the latter resided, as the New YorkState refused to acknowledge Ihe validity of the quick-lunch Rcuo divorces. His Honor granted a decree for nullity.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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107AN AMERICAN DIVORCE. Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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