Woodward v. Heichelbech

On exceptions to a master's report in a suit to annul a marriage.

The petition is not based on any of the causes enumerated in the statute, but seeks to invoke the original jurisdiction of the chancellor to annul an unconsummated marriage on the ground of fraud. The parties went through a ceremony of marriage on May 20th, 1922, before a civil officer in the State of New York authorized to perform the same. At that time the petitioner was a woman twenty-two years of age. No children resulted from the marriage, and the master reports that he is convinced that the ceremony was never consummated…