Gay v. Pantell

In an equity suit to annul a marriage contract on the ground that the marriage was void ab initio, a verdict was returned refusing to annul the marriage. The plaintiff’s motion for a new trial was overruled and she excepted.

1. One ground of the motion for new trial complained of the following charge: “First, I charge you upon that subject that a license was not essential to marriage.” Also, “The fourth contention is, as I understand it,' on the part of the plaintiff, that the alleged marriage in South Carolina was void because there was no license. I charge you that the absence of a license…