Houle v. Houle

Action for annulment of marriage. The proofs satisfactorily establish that the plaintiff was the father of a child born to defendant before her marriage with him, and that after, the birth of the child she coerced him, by threats of violence to be inflicted upon him by her brother, to go through the form of .a marriage ceremony with her, so that she might have the legal right to use his name and confer upon her child the right to bear his name and upon *29the express understanding between them, embodied in writing, that they should never live together as husband and wife and that neither should…