KNOTTY MARRIAGE.
MAY A MAN WED DIVORCED WIFE’S MOTHER? New York, Dec. 1? A knotty point has been presented to the magistrate at Louisville, Kentucky, by a cooper named Thornton, who was arrested yesterday while on his honeys moon. His offence is that of marrying his mother-in-law contrary to an old statute of Kentucky. Thornton, who was married only last Tuesday, divorced his first wife a few weeks ago. Therefore he pleads that, as she is no longer his wife, her mother is no longer his mother-in-law, and that he was free to marry the mother if he wished. The magistrate, having no answer ready for such a plea, adjourned the case for a week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 9
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115KNOTTY MARRIAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 9
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