Buffum v. Buffum

Foster, V. C.

This petition by Jessie Orr BufEum to have her marriage to the defendant, Edgar BufEum, Jr., annulled on the ground of the defendant’s incapacity to enter into the marriage contract, arising from his lunacy at the time of the marriage, is filed under the Divorce act of 1907, paragraph 1, subsection 4 (P. L. 1907 p. 474), which authorizes decrees of nullity of marriage when “the parties or either of them was, at the time of the marriage, incapable of consenting thereto and the marriage has not been subsequently ratified,” and also under the supplement to the Crimes act, 2 Comp.…