Aymar v. Roff
New York Court of Chancery
THE bill stated that the plaintiff, Eliza A. the infant, was the daughter of Peter A. and under 13 years of age. That in August last, the infant, with her mother, went from the city of New-York to Staten Island, and boarded with Mrs, Roff. That the infant there became acquainted with the defendant son of Mrs. Roff, who was about 33 or 34 years of age. That on the 37th of September last, the defendant proposed to the infant to go to a minister and be married.
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THE bill stated that the plaintiff, Eliza A. the infant, was the daughter of Peter A. and under 13 years of age. That in August last, the infant, with her mother, went from the city of New-York to Staten Island, and boarded with Mrs, Roff. That the infant there became acquainted with the defendant son of Mrs. Roff, who was about 33 or 34 years of age. That on the 37th of September last, the defendant proposed to the infant to go to a minister and be married. That the infant then being under 13 years of age, and ignorant of the duties which the marriage, if legal, would impose, and considering…
1Opinion of the Court
The following order was made by the court
“Oh reading the bill, and on motion of Mr. D. S. Jones, of counsel for the plaintiffs, and the said infant being examined in court, and repeating the same declaration r Ordered, that the said Eliza Arm Aymar be pla' ced under the protection of this court, as. a ward thereof, and that the defendant refrain from holding any conversa*51tion¿ or from having any intercourse- or correspondence with the said Eliza, so long as this order remains in force, under the pain of incurring a contempt.”
N. B. No further order was asked for in this case, so that nothing…
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