TWO MARRIAGES
CHURCH NOT RECOGNISED. DIVORCE CASE HEARING. SYDNEY. April 18. In the New South Wales Divorce Court this week, .Mr Justice James took unprecedented action. A case before him concn-iicd the marriage of William Rico with Mary Agnes Hodge. They were first, married it. 1916 at Waverlcy. Subsequently tho\ were informed by a minister of another denomination that their first marriage was not legal, so far as the laws of his oh until were concerned. In 1919, therefore, they were remarried at Nvngan, and received a second certificate from the second clergyman. When tlieso facts were mentioned to Mr Justice James, he granted Mrs Rice a decree nisi, and dissolved the fi ! 'st marriage. “I re-fuse to recognise the second liuvriage certificate,” he said. The second marriage certificate was handed hack to the petitioner, who still has documentary evidence that site is married. tho""ii her legal marriage has been dissolved!
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 6
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151TWO MARRIAGES Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 6
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