Doe v. Doe

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The annulment of the marriage is granted upon both grounds alleged in the petition.

This Court, in Williams v. Williams, 2 W. W. Harr. (32 Del.) 39, 118 A. 638, held that fraud constituting a ground for annulling a marriage under the Revised Code of 1915, § 3004, paragraph d, must be fraud which went to the very essence of the marriage contract. In this case the fraud alleged and proved by the plaintiff does go to the essence of the contract relation. The authorities are uniform in holding that the concealment of a venereal disease of a serious…