Wells v. Hardy

KEY Associate Justice.

Appellant brought this suit against Mrs. Willo Hardy (making her husband a party defendant pro forma) to re cover damages for breach of a promise to marry. He admitted in his petition that Mrs. Hardy, who was Miss Willo Lipscomb at the time the marriage contract was made, was at that time only 18 years of age, and that she was under 21 years of age when she repudiated the contract and married W. H. Hardy.

Because of this admission in the plaintiff’s petition, the court below sustained an exception thereto, upon the ground that the defendant, being a minor when the…