A questionable marriage
By: by A. Shackelford Sullivan
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 7357-7358; Making of modern law
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co.
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Divorce; Law and legislation; Fiction
Description: Melodramatic novel centered on the divorce laws of Oklahoma in the 1890s, when the Oklahoma probate courts were empowered to grant divorces. Several years later, the Oklahoma Supreme Court declared the legislative empowerment unconstitutional, creating bigamists of those who had remarried.