Campbell v. Campbell

The action is for the annulment of the plaintiff’s marriage to the defendant contracted in 1919, upon the ground that the defendant had represented herself to be chaste, whereas, unkown to the plaintiff, she was at that time the mother of an illegitimate child. The amended answer, in addition to denials, sets forth four affirmative defenses, of which the plaintiff moved to strike out the second, third and fourth as insufficient in law. The motion was denied.

The second defense alleges that at some time in 1922 the plaintiff acquired full knowledge of the true facts concerning which the alleged…