Case Name: DI LORENZO v. DI LORENZO
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1901-05
Citations: 70 N.Y.S. 1012
Docket Number: 
Parties: DI LORENZO v. DI LORENZO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 70
Pages: 1012–1012

Head Matter:
(34 Misc. Rep. 692.)
DI LORENZO v. DI LORENZO.
(Supreme Court, Special Term, Kings County.
May, 1901.)
.Marriage—Fraud—Annulment.
Where defendant induces plaintiff to marry her by false representations that a child was born to him by defendant, it was obtaining his consent to marriage by fraud, within Code Civ. Proc. § 1743, subd, 4, authorizing the annulment thereof.
Action by Gregorio Di Lorenzo against Johanna Di Lorenzo to annul a marriage. Judgment for plaintiff.
Byron Traver, for plaintiff,
Greeiithal «fe Greenthal, for defendant.

Opinion:
GAYNOR, J.
The verdict of the jury establishes that the defendant induced the plaintiff to marry her by falsely and fraudulently representing to him and causing him to believe that she had given birth to a child of which he was the father, and that it was then living, whereas she had borne no child at all, but palmed off a false-child on him. This was obtaining his consent to the marriage by fraud within subdivision 4 of section 1743 of the Code of Civil Procedure. It seems to me that the intention of our law is to rate frauds which go to the essence of the marriage contract and relation the same as frauds in general in respect of contracts. Scott v. Shufeldt, 5 Paige, 43; Moot v. Moot, 37 Hun, 288; Keyes v. Keyes, 6 Misc. Rep. 355, 26 N. Y. Supp. 910; King v. Brewer, 8 Misc. Rep. 587, 29 N. Y. Supp. 1114; Kujek v. Goldman, 150 N. Y. 176, 44 N. E. 773, 34 L. R. A. 156; Donovan v. Donovan, 9 Allen, 140.
Judgment for-the plaintiff.