Berus v. Berus

Action, on the ground of fraud, for-the annulment of a marriage. Plaintiff alleges that the defendant represented himself to her as -an honest and law-abiding citizen; and as a duly licensed practitioner at the bar, and that in consequence of these representations she married him. After the marriage, she asserts, she learned that he had been convicted of crime and had served a term of thirty days in a penal institution; that he was not a member of the bar, and that, in fact, because of his conviction, he was ineligible for such membership. There is nothing’ credit*625able in the character and…