Slais v. Slais

This is an action in equity to annul, on the ground of the insanity of the defendant, a contract of marriage made between the parties on the twenty-fourth day of January, 1875. The parties were first married in 1864, and lived together for eight years. It appears that the defendant brought a suit for divorce, to which the present plaintiff made no defence. No record evidence was introduced, but the present plaintiff, in his testimony, says: “A divorce was granted us on the fifteenth day of October, 1874.” From this date the plaintiff did not see the defendant until the twenty-fourth day of…