Crapps v. Smith

The contest is over the custody of a girl. She had run away and gone through the form of a marriage with a young man, when her father brought habeas corpus against the young man; alleging that the girl was only'thirteen years of age, and that the attempted marriage was void. The respondent set up that the girl was more than fourteen years old, and that the marriage was legal. He further set up that the girl’s father had mistreated her, but this portion of the answer was stricken, and the issue was confined by the court to the sole question as to whether the girl was as much as fourteen years…