Allerton v. Allerton

The defendants were married after having obtained a certificate from the city clerk upon representations that they were of the age of legal consent when in fact the defendant Mabel Dean Allerton was of the age of legal consent but the defendant Robert M. Allerton was not of that age. The age of legal consent is eighteen years but the age under which the consent of parents and guardians is' required is eighteen years for a woman and twenty-one for a man. Dom. Rel. Law, § 15. As the statute stood prior to *6281916 parties who contracted a marriage when they were under eighteen years of age, or…