13 Conn. App. 282 - Manndorff v. Dax’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on England v. Town of Coventry · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Manning · Mazzei v. Cantales · Town of Roxbury v. Town of Bridgewater · Erwin v. English
Most-quoted passages
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“[r]ather than seeking a change in the status of the defendant's marriage to the husband, the plaintiff [sought] a declaration of the invalidity of that marriage when it was contracted and as it may have existed in the past as a basis for determining the status of the parties upon his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a judicial declaration that the marriage between the defendant and the plaintiff's deceased husband was invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“more properly viewed as a declaratory judgment action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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