Holt v. York

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Trial Court annulling a marriage. Trial was before the court, without a jury, which after hearing entered judgment annulling the marriage. Plaintiff, Bonnie Carol York, was 15 years of age and a 9th grade student in Junior High School. Defendant, Walter Douglas Holt, was 27 years of age. He had been placed on probation, worked in New Orleans as a bartender and was a steeplejack by trade. He commenced going with plaintiff and persuaded her to marry him; he secured the license for such marriage by falsely swearing that she was 18…