Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — WEDDED, BUT STILL SINGLE [ARTICLE]

WEDDED, BUT STILL SINGLE

Appellate Court Decision Invalidates Many Marriages in Illinois. Chicago, Nov. 17. —The prop of legality has been knocked from beneath thousands of marriages in Illinois through a sweeping decision of the appellate court of southern Illinois. The remarriage of divorced persons within one year, even though the ceremony is performed in another state, is declared illegal. The principals in such marriages are declared guilty of a serious offense and liable to criminal prosecution should they return to Illinois to live following their second venture in matrimony.