Brandt v. Brandt

The plaintiff, a native of France, and the defendant, a musician bom in Venzuela, met in Brussels in 1911. At that time the plaintiff was twenty-two years old and the defendant eighteen and one-half years old. The defendant then migrated to New York and in 1914 the plaintiff, a citizen of France, was detained at Ellis Island, New York, and refused admittance to the United States. In order to make it possible for her admission to the United States, the defendant married her on February 27, 1914, and they lived together until December 4, 1929, when they separated.

The plaintiff has alleged two…