Moore v. Moore

This action is brought to annul a marriage on the ground of fraud on the part of the defendant.

The evidence shows that at the time of the marriage the plaintiff was a young woman of a little over eighteen years of age. That the defendant had gotten her in the family way, and.was urged by a friend of the girl on her behalf to marry her. He at first declined and then consented. The marriage ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace before whom the parties went. After the ceremony the defendant took the plaintiff to her mother’s house and left her. He never again went to see her, but…