Jones  V.  Jones,  108  N.  Y.  415.  In  Hunt  v.  Hunt,  72  id.  217,  it  was
held  that  the  jurisdiction  of  a  court  of  another  State  in  which  a
judgment  has  been  rendered  is  always  open  to  inquiry  in  the  courts
of  tliis  State,  and  the  judgment  may  also  be  questioned  collaterally
for  fraud.  Where  an  action  for  divorce  is  brought  in  a  court  hav-
ing power  to  entertain  such  an  action,  and  which  has  jurisdiction  of
the  parties,  the  court  has  power  to  give  judgment,  although  plaintiff
fails  to  make  out  a  cause  for  divorce,  as  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  the
State,  and  this  failure  cannot  be  shown  collaterally  to  avoid  the
judgment  while  it  stands  unreversed,  whether  the  judgment  is  a  valid
one  in  the  State  where  granted  or  a  sister  State.  The  courts  of  this
State  will  not  attempt  to  pass  piimarily  upon  the  validity  of  a
divorce  granted  iinder  the  laws  of  another  State.  But  in  People  v.
Baker,  76  N.  Y.  78,  it  was  held  that  a  court  of  another  State  can-
not adjudge  the  dissolution  of  the  marital  relations  of  a  citizen  of
this  State,  domiciled  and  actually  residing  here  during  the  pendency
of  judicial  proceedings  in  such  State,  without  a  voluntary  appearance
on  his  part  therein  and  with  no  actual  notice  to  him  thereof,  and
this  although  the  marriage  was  solemnized  in  such  other  State.  Such
a  judgment  is  not  a  defense  to  an  indictment  against  a  citizen  of  this
State  for  bigamy.  An  able  and  exhaustive  discussion  of  these  authori-
ties and  numerous  others,  including  Brinkley  v.  Brhikley,  50  N.  Y.
