Elliott v. Elliott

This action is brought under § 1316e of the 1939 Supplement to the General Statutes, to annul a marriage for lack of consent. The plaintiff and defendant, after an all-night round of drinking in New York night clubs, went to Greenwich, Connecticut, where they went through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace and immediately thereafter separated without cohabiting.

Neither party is nor was, at the time of the marriage, a resident of or domiciled .in Connecticut. The plaintiff is a resident of the state of New York and the defendant is a resident of the state of California. The…