Niland v. Niland

This is a petition by a father and mother praying for a decree of nullity of marriage between the defendants, their daughter, Eleanor Patricea Niland and William J. Swift. The cause for action is alleged to be that their daughter went through a pretended ceremony of marriage with Swift at Jersey City, on August 3d 1924; that at the time thereof the daughter Eleanor was under the age of eighteen years, to wit, was seventeen years and four months old, and that the marriage was against the will of petitioners, her parents, and without their consent, and that Eleanor was taken from their…