Mayer

Defendant, Jack Mayer, appeals from a decree of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco annulling his marriage with plaintiff, Adrienne Mayer, on the ground that plaintiff’s consent thereto was procured by the fraud of defendant.

The parties were married on June 4, 1926, in the city of San Francisco. Plaintiff was twenty years of age and defendant was twenty-two. Plaintiff resided in the state of New York, with her father and stepmother, and with her .stepmother was visiting in San Francisco, having arrived during the first week of May. Said stepmother was then twenty-six years of age. The parties to the marriage met at a dinner given by a distant relative of plaintiff on May 15, 1926, and thereafter saw each other every evening pre ceding their marriage. On the evening of June 3d, when they had known each other a little more than two weeks, they agreed to marry on the following day. Defendant was employed as a salesman in a downtown shoe store. The marriage took place during his lunch hour at the city hall, a justice of the peace officiating, and was witnessed by plaintiff’s stepmother and a friend of defendant. The defendant left plaintiff a few minutes after…