Meekins v. Kinsella
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Kate J. Meekins, and the defendants Hannah R. Hawley, individually and as committee, etc., and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor" of the defendant Richard A. Kinsella, entered' in the office of the •clerk of the county of New York on the ■30th day of June, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action under sections 1743 and 1747 of the Code of Civil Procedure, commenced on the 11th day of July, 1910, to annul the marriage of the plaintiff’s sister to the defendant Kinsella, which was celebrated on the 8th day of September, 1890, on the ground that she was a lunatic. After the marriage they occupied rooms together at different boarding houses until the 17th day of January, 1891, when the wife was committed to the Bloomingdale Asylum on a summary ex parte adjudication that she was a. lunatic, made by a justice of the Supreme Court on the evidence of two…
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