Adams v. Scott

Action to annul a marriage for the alleged incapacity of one of the parties to the contract. The action was brought in the district court for Lancaster county by one Dora Doyle, as the next friend of Jennie Belle Adams, against Walter Scott, to whom Jennie was married on the 2d day of October, 1910, alleging that she was insane or an idiot at the time of her marriage.

It appears, without dispute, that Jennie was left by her mother at an institution called the “Tabitha Home,” located in the suburbs of the city of Lincoln, when she was ten years of age; that at the time of her marriage she had…