Woronzoff-Daschkoff v. Woronzoff-Daschkoff

This appeal is taken, by our leave, from an affirmance of a judgment annulling a marriage because of the husband defendant’s alleged fraud (Domestic Relations Law, § 7, subd. 4; Civ. Prac. Act, § 1139).

On March 24, 1947, in New York City, there was solemnized the wedding of plaintiff, a woman thirty-two years old, born in India, and possessed of great wealth, to defendant, an impoverished émigré Russian nobleman, forty-five years of age. They had known each other for about three months. The marriage had been urged and encouraged by defendant’s younger brother who had been acquainted with…