Regards,
Charles Sullivan
Eddie Johnston <edi@iah.com> wrote:
>I just got a copy of my grandmother's divorce papers and there are a couple
>things I don't understand. The divorce was granted in 1941, they both lived in
>Saratoga county as did the lawyer, John Ostrander, but at the top of the
form it says "At an Adjourned Special Term of the Supreme Court held in and
for the County of Franklin, at Supreme Court Chambers in the Village of
Malone, NY" then it is headed Supreme Court, Saratoga County and in the text
of the decree it says the trial was in Hudson Falls NY. How do I find out
where the divorce was granted? (The papers were found by my sister in a box
of stuff she had)
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>My second question has to do with a decree on the second page saying that
the Plaintiff, my grandmother, could marry again, as though the Defendant were
>dead. But that the Defendant could not lawfully marry until the plaintiff
were actually dead. Is this usual? If so, were these decrees enforced? How
would my grandfather have gone about being allowed to remarry?
>
>I would appreciate any insight into these questions, or advice on how to
answer them myself. I really wish I knew why she divorced him, it sounds
like it could be more interesting than I thought.
>
> Thanks,
> Susan
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