Its. Validity Upheld by Court of First Instance Manila, Feb. 10.
The question of the validity in the Philippine Islands of decree. of divorce obtained in a court in the States was decided in the today by Judge Georg? Harvey. of the Court First Inst ance. Mrs, Jose Ventura of Maniba obtained a desree of divorce from her husband in the State of Nevada [in Marsh, 1924 and upon her return to Manila applied to the court for authority to dispose of cer-property. Her petition was opposed by her former husband, on the krannd that the divorce granted the United States was not legal in the Philippine Islands.
The court held that Mrs, Ventur: required a howe fide residence the State of Nevada, that the: divorce proceedings were "legal and valid and must be given full effect. in this jurisdietion—Reuter's Paci fe Service.
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