Deeds v. Deeds

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

When the plaintiff was forty-nine years old and the defendant was sixteen years her senior she advertised for a husband and found one in him. He was a widower with a son and daughter and she was a widow with a boy about ten years old. The marriage occurred in July, 1912. Neither the abstract nor the briefs tell us when the action was begun, but counsel say in one place that the plaintiff lived with the defendant seven and one-half years, which indicates that it might have been begun about January, 1920.

In the petition the wife alleged that the…