Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-28 | Page 7 | Marriage is Stopped by the Clerk

MARRIAGE IS I STOPPED BY I I HI: lL IRK I On Juno 13, George Watkins was H separated from his wife by an Inter- H Jocutory decree and he was advised H by his attornoy that he was at lib- H erty to. marry again. Accordingly H labt Saturday he was Issued n H license to marry Nina I. Stone, and H arrangements wero made for tho H marriage ceremony. Ji was dlscov- H ered by the county clerk, however, H soon after tho license was Issued, H that Mr. Watklns had been only par- H tlally dlvorcod and Hint it was unlaw H ful for him to marry at this time, so H he wns nollfiod and the license wad H callod In for cancellation. H Under the divorce laws of tho stale. H a divorced person must wait six: H months after the Interlocutory de- H grco. is issued before a final decreo H can be given and they aro barred H from again entering into the mar- IH rlagc relationship until nftcr the H final decree. Mr. Watklns did not un- H derstnnd tho law and his attorncv H gave him an erroneous opinion, which )od him Into tho unpleasant situation H The clerk called Mr. Watkiu's atten- M lion to tho matter just In time to H avoid his marriage to Miss Stone M