de Vries v. de Vries

This is an action to annul a marriage on the ground of want of assent thereto or intention to marry. There was no defense. On the contrary, defendant, as a witness, corroborated complainant’s testimony to the effect that they first met on a steamer coming from Holland to New York; that she was under contract with a theatrical company from which she wished to be released, and concluding that marriage would effect the rescission of her contract with the company she later, on reaching Chicago, requested plaintiff to marry her for the purpose of effecting such object, with the understanding…