Collins v. Ryan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The object of this suit is to obtain a judgment decreeing the ceremony of marriage between the plaintiff and defendant ab initio null and void, and that they were never married to each other; and further decreeing that no community or other marital rights ever resulted from the ceremony of marriage which was performed between them — their legal status of unmarried persons never-having been thereby changed or affected.

The allegation of the petitioner is, “That on the 10th of June, 1897,. he was compelled by force and threats to procure a…