Johnson v. Johnson

THOMAS, Justice.

Demurrer to a bill by a husband seeking annulment of his ceremonial marriage was sustained. Hence this appeal.

The grounds stated in the bill are that when the marriage was entered into, appellant had a living wife to whom he was ceremonially married, and from whom he had not been divorced. It is averred that his marriage with appellee was and is “wholly null and void.”

The demurrer is to the effect that the bill is rested upon his “confessed and palpable violation of a law” which is denounced as a crime and that no right can be rested upon such act for which a criminal penalty…