Powers v. Powers

1. The marriage of a boy in his sixteenth year, although declared by the Code to be void in the sense of being absolutely void, may nevertheless be ratified and confirmed by continuing, after arriving at the age of seventeen years, to cohabit with his wife as such. Smith v. Smith, 84 Ga. 440 (11 S. E. 496, 8 L. R. A. 362); Luke v. Hill, 137 Ga. 159 (73 S. E. 345).

2. The evidence in the present case was sufficient to authorize a finding that the defendant below was only in his sixteenth year at the time of the marriage ceremony between him and the plaintiff, duly performed by a justice of the…