Elizabeth Kirkhouse c. Richard Haymond and Emma Cowper

In this lawsuit, the deponents, including defendant Richard Haymond himself, all tell different parts of the same story, that Richard was already married to Elizabeth Kirkhouse when a year later he bigamously married Emma Cowper. The point of the lawsuit was clearly to annul Haymond’s marriage to Cowper so that he could resume his spousalContinue reading “Elizabeth Kirkhouse c. Richard Haymond and Emma Cowper”