Cavanagh v. Cavanagh

A judge of the Probate and Family Court allowed the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint for annulment of the parties’ marriage. The plaintiff appealed to the Appeals Court and we transferred the case to this court on our own motion. We affirm the judgment of dismissal.

The material allegations of the complaint are as follows. At the time the complaint was filed, both parties were residents of Rhode Island. On September 20, 1954, while the plaintiff was domiciled in Massachusetts, he and the defendant “went through a marriage ceremony” in Rhode Island. They then lived…