Hempel v. Hempel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shaw-ano county: Edgar Y. Werner, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced May 12, 1919, to annul a marriage of June 26, 1917. The amended complaint alleged as a first cause of action that at the time of the marriage the defendant was mentally incompetent and an imbecile; that the plaintiff was ignorant of such condition and that the defendant and her mother through trickery induced the plaintiff to marry the defendant ; that…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shaw-ano county: Edgar Y. Werner, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced May 12, 1919, to annul a marriage of June 26, 1917. The amended complaint alleged as a first cause of action that at the time of the marriage the defendant was mentally incompetent and an imbecile; that the plaintiff was ignorant of such condition and that the defendant and her mother through trickery induced the plaintiff to marry the defendant ; that the defendant, being mentally incompetent, had no right to enter into a marriage relation; that by virtue of such fraud…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was -filed March 8, 1921:
Eschweiler, J.
The claim by plaintiff in his original complaint and renewed in the amended complaint for a divorce on the ground of desertion was apparently abandoned by him on the trial and no findings made with reference thereto by the court.
The defendant was at the time of the trial about twenty-seven years of age; the plaintiff’s age does not appear. Plaintiff had known defendant some two years prior to the marriage in 1917 and had corresponded with her during *335that period. He had visited at her home about twice within the two months preceding…
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