Propp v. Rothenberg

The principal question presented here is whether plaintiffs’ bill of particulars is to be served before. or after defendants are examined before trial. The action is one to recover for fraud due essentially to defendants’ lack of religious orthodoxy, it being the main claim that the defendants, the husband and his mother, misrepresented to plaintiffs, the wife and her mother, their religious intentions, beliefs and practices for the purpose of inducing consent to the marriage. Such allegations of fraud are thus largely directed to the nature and degree of personal convictions which only…