Norman

Action to have a certain marriage between plaintiff and defendant declared valid and binding upon the parties. A second amended complaint alleged that on August 2, 1897, defendant was a minor of the age of fifteen years and ten months, and that her father, one A. C. Thomson, was her natural and only guardian; plaintiff was of the age of twenty-one years and ten months, and that both plaintiff and defendant were citizens and residents of Los Angeles county, California; on said day plaintiff and defendant, at Long Beach, on the coast of California, boarded a certain fishing and pleasure schooner of seventeen tons burden, called the “J. Willey,” duly licensed under the laws of the United States, of which W. L. Pierson was captain, and was enrolled as master thereof, and had full charge of said vessel; said vessel proceeded to a point on the high seas about nine miles from the nearest point from the boundary of the state'imcTof the United States; the parties then and there agreed, in the presence of said Pierson, to become husband and wife, and the_said Pierson performed the ceremony of marriage, and among other things they promised in his presence to take each other for husband and…