Lyndon v. Lyndon

This was a bill in chancery, in the Superior Court of Cook county, to annul a marriage and to declare the contract void.

The court refused the prayer of the bill, and dismissed the same at complainant’s costs. To reverse this decree, complainant appeals.

The complainant, it appears, ivas a young girl, about fifteen years of age. the daughter of a citizen of Chicago, who had employed the defendant as his coachman, in which capacity he was accustomed to drive out, in the family carriage, complainant, with the younger children. Instead of abiding by the implied understanding with which he entered…