How have courts dealt with an action to overturn a marriage where the husband claims to be under age at the time of the marriage?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cunningham v. Cunningham, 206 N.Y. 341, 99 N.E. 845 (N.Y. 1912):
In the case of Titsworth v. Titsworth, 78 N. J. Eq. 47, 78 Atl . 687, an action was brought by the husband to have the marriage set aside on the ground that he was under age at the time of the marriage. In that case the plaintiff had taken the defendant, to whom he had been paying attention, to a clergyman's house, in company with her brother and sister as witnesses, and there married her; he representing himself to be of the proper age. He then [206 N.Y. 345]returned with
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