Smith v. Smith
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from' Circuit Court, Etowah County ; Woodson J. Martin, Judge. Bill by Inez Merchant Smith, by next friend, against Charlie Smith. Erom decree sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from' Circuit Court, Etowah County ; Woodson J. Martin, Judge. Bill by Inez Merchant Smith, by next friend, against Charlie Smith. Erom decree sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainant appeals. The bill alleges that plaintiff is a minor of 15 years, and that her'husband is 25 years of age, and that by the exercise of his arts and wiles, his powers of persuasion and constraint on the plaintiff, her said husband constrained her to forge her father’s name to an instrument in writing purporting to be the consent of her father in writing to the marriage of complainant and respondent,…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
This bill was filed by appellant seeking the annulment of her marriage with appellee, and from the decree sustaining demurrers thereto she prosecutes this appeal.
The hill as last amended alleges the age of complainant as 15 years and that, of respondent. at 25, and that on March 1, 1920, a marriage license was issued, and the marriage ceremony duly performed, but that very soon thereafter the complainant’s father learned of the marriage, and after talking with complainant she abandoned the respondent and returned to her father’s home. The bill further shows that complainant forged her…
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