MacKey v. MacKey

An equitable suit to annul a marriage is not maintainable in this State for causes recognized by the statute as grounds for a total divorce. Accordingly, a petition which alleged that the petitioner was induced by force and duress to enter into a purported ceremonial marriage with the defendant, who at the time was pregnant with a child of which he was falsely accused of being the father, that he had never had intercourse with her and had never lived with her after the marriage and never ratified the same, and that a court of equity should come to his aid to avoid a multiplicity of suits,…