Franke

Franke v. Franke

Good Law
18 L.R.A. 375·1892 Cal. LEXIS 1072·3 Cal. Unrep. 656·31 P. 571
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 30, 1892No. 14,532California3,444 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Vanclief, J.

Action to annul marriage, on the ground that plaintiff’s consent to marry was obtained by fraud, and upon the further and distinct ground that the defendant was physically incapable of entering into the marriage state. The cause having been tried by the court, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, from which, and from an order denying her motion for a new trial, the defendant has appealed.

The complaint, after stating the marriage on the fifteenth day of September, 1889, generally and meagerly alleges the cause of action as follows: “ (3) For the purpose of inducing the plaintiff to consent to the said marriage, the defendant falsely an'd fraudulently represented that she was chaste and virtuous, and physically competent to marry plaintiff, and concealed from plaintiff her real condition, claiming then to be pregnant by plaintiff, but chaste and virtuous as to all other men, and that, save plaintiff, she had never had sexual intercourse or connection with any man. All which representations were false and fraudulent. (4) That defendant was not then and there physically competent to marry plaintiff, but was at the time of said marriage pregnant by some other man than…

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