Hitchens v. Hitchens

EICHER, Chief Justice.

This motion to dismiss complaint poses the question whether a Maryland marriage, contracted by a male between eighteen and twenty-one years of age and a female between sixteen and eighteen years of age, without consent of parents, the domicile of both parties before and after the marriage being in the District of Columbia, is annullable by this Court.

In the first place, does this Court have jurisdiction in the sense of having the power to annul a Maryland contract? Jurisdiction of the' parties, of course, is clear.

Since the decree of annulment goes back to the question…