Gillett v. Gillett

The bill in this case was filed to set aside a marriage claimed to be voidable for fraud. It appears to our satisfaction, as it did to the court below, that complainant, who was a man of about 75, and who had lost his eye-sight, and was more or less deaf, and otherwise broken, was induced suddenly, and by putting him under the influence of liquors, and probably of drugs, to marry defendant, who was less than half his age, and had a young child, and for whom he had never entertained any attachment, and with whom he was very slightly acquainted. He had just become assured that he would receive…