Ferlat v. Gojon
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause was filed in the name of Antoinette 'pjieocjprjne Qavjn Ferlat of the city of New York, an infant, by Stephen Ferlat of the same place, her next friend." */ a a It set forth, that the complainant is of the age of about nineteen years; and her mother is now the wife of the said Stephen Ferlat, with whom the complainant lives, as one of his family, superintending a school of young ladies ; the proceeds of which contribute to her support and maintenance:…
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The bill in this cause was filed in the name of Antoinette 'pjieocjprjne Qavjn Ferlat of the city of New York, an infant, by Stephen Ferlat of the same place, her next friend." */ a a It set forth, that the complainant is of the age of about nineteen years; and her mother is now the wife of the said Stephen Ferlat, with whom the complainant lives, as one of his family, superintending a school of young ladies ; the proceeds of which contribute to her support and maintenance: that on the sixth day of January 1825, the defendant with one Mary Matthieu and others, by artful contrivances,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
This is a case of a marriage procured by fraud. Miss Ferlat was entrapped into a marriage with Gojon, by artifices which he employed; and though she gave an apparent consent at the moment of the celebration, yet it fully appears, that this consent was feigned, and that it was the effect not of her choice, but of her terror. The clergyman who celebrated the nuptial rite, supposed, that he was marrying persons who were free and had freely contracted; and he was deceived. The complainant never consented freely, to become the wife of the defendant; she has never cohabited with him;…
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