Case Name: Albert F. Sanderson v. Ruth E. Sanderson
Court: Supreme Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1972-01-17
Citations: 212 Va. 537
Docket Number: Record No. 7645
Parties: Albert F. Sanderson v. Ruth E. Sanderson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 212
Pages: 537–537

Head Matter:
Richmond
Albert F. Sanderson v. Ruth E. Sanderson.
January 17, 1972.
Record No. 7645.
Present, All the Justices.
William B. Moore (Phillips, Kendrick, Gearheart & Aylor, on brief), for appellant.
Albert J. Ahern, Jr. (Howard, Stevens, Lynch, Cacheris, Cake <& Howard, on brief), for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
By this suit, Albert F. Sanderson seeks an annulment of his marriage to Ruth E. Sanderson. He alleges as the ground for annulment that Ruth E. Sanderson falsely represented before their marriage that she had been previously married and divorced only once, whereas in fact she had been married and divorced five times.
The trial court denied the annulment. To settle the question, we granted the husband an appeal.
In line with the weight of authority, see cases collected in Annot. 15 A.L.R.3d 759 (1967), we hold that misrepresentation as to prior marital status is not ground for annulment.
Affirmed.