Grundmeyer v. Sander

This is an action to annul a marriage on the ground that “the marriage was entered into by petitioner, not of his own free will, but through fear of his life, because of threats on the part of his said wife’s father and two brothers, who took him bodily and told him that they would kill him if he refused to marry the defendant at once.” The answer of the defendant raises the general issue.

There was judgment below for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

It would serve no useful purpose to go into the salacious details of the evidence. Suffice it to say that the defendant tells a wholly imaginary…