Dauge v. Dauge

The plaintiff seeks to annul his marriage with the defendant on the ground of fraud and on the ground of the defendant’s incurable insanity for more than five years. At the close of the hearing conducted at a Special Term of this court the defendant’s special guardian and the Attorney-G-eneral moved for failure of proof to dismiss the cause of action based on insanity.

The plaintiff and the defendant were married in 1929. Between 1929 and 1936 seven children of the marriage were born. In 1936 the defendant was adjudged a mental defective and committed to the Rome State School at Rome, New…