Caplan v. Caplan

This is an uncontested action to annul a purported marriage.

On October 11, 1935, the parties procured a marriage license from the city clerk in Brooklyn, N. Y. After the license was issued they requested the city clerk to marry them, but he said he was not able to do so. The plaintiff was nineteen years of age at the time.

*380In August, 1936, the plaintiff visited a farm near Accord, N. Y., where the defendant was employed. She, the defendant and another couple attended a party the evening of her arrival. At three o’clock the following morning she and the defendant went to the home of the local…