Keenan v. Keenan

The parties in this case were married in the State of New York on November 1, 1937, when the plaintiff was not 18 years old. After the ceremony, they immediately returned to Connecticut. The plaintiff remained willing for some time thereafter to live with her husband as man and wife but he refused, for reasons best known to himself, and the result has been an unconsummated marriage which this action seeks to annul.

Generally accepted is the rule that, save in certain extreme cases, a marriage valid where the ceremony is performed is valid everywhere. As the marriage in this case was performed…