Clark's Estate
Citations
- 173 Pa. 451
- 34 A. 68
- 1896 Pa. LEXIS 729
Syllabus
<p>Marriage — Second marriage after long absence of first husband — Decedent's estate.</p> <p>If a woman’s lawful husband is alive and undivorced at the time of her second man'iage, no matter how long he may have been absent and unheard of, the second marriage is invalid, and she is not entitled to share in the estate of her apparent second husband.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- upholding the trial court’s denial of additional preliminary objections because mistakes by former legal counsel were not “sufficient cause”
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Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams
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