7 S.E.2d 426 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1940
The court erred in sustaining the daughter's caveat to the application of the wife for letters of administration of her husband's estate.
1. Statutes prohibiting the guilty party to a judgment of divorce from marrying again are without effect outside of the territorial limits of the prohibiting State. 5 R. C. L. 1004; 12 C. J. 468; Loughran v. Loughran,
2. The first sentence in Code § 53-214, "all marriages solemnized in another State by parties intending at the time to reside in this State shall have the same legal consequences and effect as if solemnized in this State," can have no extraterritorial application to a citizen of another State who in good faith contracts in that State a marriage with a resident of Georgia who is laboring under the disability of not being allowed to marry again in Georgia. There is no evidence in this case that the alleged second wife was not a bona fide resident of Alabama at the time she married *860 the deceased, or that the parties entered into the marriage for the purpose of evading the laws of Georgia, so as to make applicable the second sentence in § 53-214, which is as follows: "Parties residing in this State may not evade any of the provisions of its laws as to marriage by going into another State for the solemnization of the marriage ceremony." The court erred in sustaining the caveat.
Judgment reversed. Stephens, P. J., and Sutton, J., concur.