MARRIAGE-ANNULMENT FOR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION AS TO INTENT TO COHABIT

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Abstract

An interesting problem as to what constitutes fraud sufficient to invalidate a marriage is raised by the recent Illinois case of Bielby v. Bielby. 165 N.E. 231. The husband asked annulment on the ground of the wife's misrepresentation as to her intent to cohabit. The evidence as to the wife's intent and as to whether the marriage was actually consummated was undecisive, the wife testifying that it was and the husband that it was not. However, he did not testify that he had ever requested consummation or that she had ever refused it. It was held there could not be annulment.

Recommended Citation

MARRIAGE-ANNULMENT FOR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION AS TO INTENT TO COHABIT, 27 Mich. L. Rev. 934 (1929).
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