Parker

Plaintiff brought this action for permanent maintenance and a division of alleged community property, on the grounds of desertion, wilful neglect to provide and extreme cruelty.

In the first three causes of action it is alleged that the parties intermarried on the eleventh day of June, 1921, and ever since have been and now are husband and wife. It is further alleged therein that on the fourteenth day of August, 1914, the parties “began to live together as husband and wife in England, and that plaintiff was induced so to do by the promise of defendant to plaintiff that he would marry plaintiff as soon as they arrived in New York; that plaintiff at defendant’s request took the name of Mrs. Olga Parker; that plaintiff and defendant continued to live together as husband and wife, at all times since the 14th day of August, 1914,” until their separation as alleged in the complaint, after their marriage on the eleventh day of June, 1921.

In the fourth cause of action it is alleged that the parties entered into a contract marriage in the state of New York in September, 1914, and thereafter lived together in the state of New York as husband and wife until May, 1918, when they came to…