Clark v. Field
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from a decree of 'the court of chancery, annulling a ceremony of marriage between the oratrix and the defendant. The bill was filed by Jeremiah Clark and Mary Almira Clark, formerly Mary Almira Phelps. The said Jeremiah having died after the filing of the bill, the suit proceeded in the name of the said Mary Almira, as survivor.
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This was an appeal from a decree of 'the court of chancery, annulling a ceremony of marriage between the oratrix and the defendant. The bill was filed by Jeremiah Clark and Mary Almira Clark, formerly Mary Almira Phelps. The said Jeremiah having died after the filing of the bill, the suit proceeded in the name of the said Mary Almira, as survivor. The complainants, in their bill, after stating a pre-contract between the complainants, set forth and charged, among other things, that a ceremony of marriage was performed at Put-ney, Vermont, on the fifteenth day of October, 1833, between the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
This case comes before us on an appeal from a decree made by the Chancellor of the second judicial circuit, declaring “ that a certain ceremony of marriage, heretofore had between the oratrix, Mary Almira Clark, and the defendant, Roswell M. Field, before Asa Keyes, 2d., Esq., be and was and is null and void, and of no effect or binding force whatever, either in law or equity, and that the same be henceforth so held and considered.” The object of the bill was to declare the ceremony of marriage null on several grounds or reasons, but…
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