Lindquist v. Lindquist

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The appeal is from a decree of nullity of marriage on the ground of fraud, in that, as found by the master, petitioner was guilty, in the face of defendant’s request for a full disclosure, of concealment of “facts about her past” which would “not only seriously mar his standing in the business and social world,” but also unfitted her for “the rearing of his children” by a former marriage, “two of whom were daughters, one of pre-adolescent, the other of adolescent years.” Defendant was a widower. His first wife died on June 16th, 1938. His…