Williams v. Williams , 3 Me. 135 ( 1824 )

But the Court

said that possibly the other party might not have had actual knowledge of the pendency of the libel, even though it may have been served or published as the law requires; —and as the consequences of the divorce might seriously affect his estate in the matter of alimony, they would not decree a divorce from bed and board, until it should appear that the parties had been legally married, and that the libellant was thereby entitled to her alimony by law.