Tayian

The plaintiff brought this action to secure a decree declaring the marriage between him and the defendant void upon the ground of fraud and for the annulment of said marriage.

The complaint, which was filed January 10, 1922, alleges that the parties intermarried in Fresno County on the twenty-ninth day of September, 1921; that the said marriage was the culmination of fraudulent acts and willful misrepresentations practiced upon the plaintiff by one T. G. Brave and his wife, uncle, and aunt of the defendant. The' gist of the charge of fraud is that the said T. G. Brave and wife conducted with the parents of the plaintiff negotiations looking to and eventuating in the intermarriage of the parties; that said T. G. Brave and wife represented to the plaintiff and his parents that the defendant was at the time referred to between fourteen and fifteen years of age and that she was and had always been “a true Christian and a virtuous girl, ’ ’ whereas, so the plaintiff alleges, he discovered after his marriage with the defendant that she was not “a true Christian and a virtuous girl.” The complaint alleges that the defendant deserted and abandoned plaintiff and refused to return to the…