Case Name: EARL, Respondent, v. EARL, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1904-07-06
Citations: 89 N.Y.S. 1103
Docket Number: 
Parties: EARL, Respondent, v. EARL, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 89
Pages: 1103–1103

Head Matter:
EARL, Respondent, v. EARL, Appellant.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
July 6, 1904.)
Action by Nellie L. Dickerson Earl, an infant, against Wheeler N. Earl.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Judgment and order affirmed, with costs. Held, that plaintiff at thie time of her marriage, having been under the age of legal consent as fixed by chapter 272, p. 215, Laws 1896 (domestic relations law), was entitled to maintain this action for the annulment of her marriage under sections 1743, 1744, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and was not governed by the provisions of section 1742 of said Code (Conte v. Conte, 82 App. Div. 335, 81 N. Y. Supp. 923); also held, that plaintiff, having an absolute statutory right to an annulment of her marriage because contracted under the age of 18 years, did not lose said right merely because, after her complaint was prepared, but before the action was commenced, she returned for a period to live with her husband, such transactions occurring before she had arrived at the age of 18 years (section 1744, supra); also held, that the finding that plaintiff at the time of her marriage was under the age of 18 years was not so unauthorized by or against the weight of the evidence that it should be set aside.