Alton v. Alton
Cases that cite this one
33 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.
- In re the Marriage of Ways (Wash. 1975)
- Wheat v. Wheat (Ark. 1958)
- Crownover v. Crownover (N.M. 1954)
- Forrest McCluney v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. (8th Cir. 1981)
- Estate of Herman Borax, Deceased, Hermine H. Borax, Louis Borax and Benjamin Borax, Executors, and Hermine Borax v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (2d Cir. 1965)
- Chang Ah Ding and Chang Shing Hwa v. United States (5th Cir. 1957)
- Inniss v. Inniss (Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands 2016)
- Northern Natural Gas Company v. Ralph Grounds, Malcolm Miller, Movant-Appellant v. Foulston, Siefkin, Powers & Eberhardt (10th Cir. 1991)
- Fombrum v. Fombrum (Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands 1985)
- Gumbs v. Gumbs (Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands 1978)
- Granville - Smith v. Granville - Smith (3d Cir. 1954)
- Steven Darshune Harrison (United States Bankruptcy Court, D. New Mexico 2023)
- Berkley Arms Apartment Corp. v. Hackensack City (New Jersey Tax Court 1983)
- Finberg v. Sullivan (3d Cir. 1981)
- Hodge v. Hodge (District Court, Virgin Islands 1979)
- Viernes v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR FOURTH JUD. DIST. (Colo. 1973)
- Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel (District Court, S.D. New York 1973)
- Rosser v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (D.C. 1971)
- Eleanor Holm v. Morris Shilensky, Arthur Cantor and Charles Wohlstetter, as Executors of the Estate of Billy Rose, Deceased (2d Cir. 1968)
- Aldabe v. Aldabe (Cal. Ct. App. 1962)
- Finberg v. Sullivan (3d Cir. 1980)
- Sosna v. Iowa (Supreme Court of the United States 1975)
- Government of the Virgin Islands v. Huggins (Municipal Court of The Virgin Islands 1967)
- Homer v. Lorillard (Municipal Court of The Virgin Islands 1967)
- Carr v. Carr (Ark. 1964)
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Opinion
ALTON
v.
ALTON.
No. 531.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued and Submitted April 7, 1954.
June 1, 1954
Messrs.
George H. T. Dudley, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., Abe Fortas, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Hyman Smollar, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner brought this action for divorce in the Virgin Islands. Following argument and submission of the case in this Court, we were authoritatively advised that a final divorce decree had been entered on April 28, 1954, in the State of Connecticut on application of the respondent. The Superior Court of Connecticut found respondent to be a domiciliary of that State and petitioner here personally appeared in that action. Petitioner does not suggest that she repudiates her appearance in the Connecticut action, that the Connecticut decree is invalid in any way, or, in fact, that there is any colorable basis for challenging it. Nor does petitioner seek any ancillary relief in the instant divorce action that could not be obtained in an independent action in the Virgin Islands.
On the premises, this case appears to be moot. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated and the cause is remanded to the District Court with directions to vacate its judgment and to dismiss the proceeding upon the ground that the cause is moot.
Mr. Justice BLACK dissents. He is of the opinion that petitioner is entitled to have her divorce case tried in the Virgin Islands since under the holding and opinion in Williams v. State of North Carolina, 325 U.S. 226, 65 S.Ct. 1092, 89 L.Ed. 1577, the Connecticut divorce decree does not necessarily protect petitioner from conviction for bigamy in the Virgin Islands or anywhere else.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS and Mr. Justice JACKSON took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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