FAUSTIN v. LEWIS


172 N.J. Super. 399 (1980)

412 A.2d 457

JOSSLINE FAUSTIN, A/K/A JOSSELINE LEWIS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. MAURICE LEWIS, A/K/A MAURICE RILEY AND JAMES OSCAR LEWIS, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Marshall Prettyman, Essex-Newark Legal Services, attorney for appellant.

No brief was submitted on behalf of respondent.

Before Judges SEIDMAN, MICHELS and DEVINE.


The opinion of the court was delivered by MICHELS, J.A.D.

Plaintiff Jossline Faustin, who is also known as Josseline Lewis, appeals from a judgment of the Chancery Division dismissing her complaint for annulment of her marriage to defendant Maurice Lewis on the ground that the action is barred by the equitable doctrine of unclean hands.

The stipulated facts appear in the complaint. On November 24, 1974 plaintiff a Haitian citizen, who was in the United States...

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