MOORE, P.J.
Defendant appeals from a decree of separate maintenance awarded to his wife Edith on the grounds of the husband's cruelty and desertion. He set up as an affirmative defense to the action a purported divorce decree he had previously obtained in the State of Nevada on July 3, 1945. This defense was rejected. The Nevada decree was held to be invalid and of no force or effect on the theory that the Nevada court was without jurisdiction. Such determination...
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