125 N.Y.S. 1 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1910
This appeal is from a judgment denying the application of the plaintiff for a judgment annulling her marriage with the defendant upon the ground that the defendant was incapable of entering into the marriage state. It appears that the parties were married in January, 1899, and resided together until 1910, when this action was commenced.
The defendant at the time of his marriage was physically incapable of meeting the obligations of the marriage, and it has never been consummated.
We are entirely satisfied from the evidence that a fraud was perpetrated by the defendant, and that the facts warrant the interference of a court of equity. The action was not commenced within the time provided by section 1752 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the learned justice at Special Term decided that the cause of
The judgment must be reversed and the proceeding remitted to the Special Term for further consideration.
Hirschberg, P. J., Woodward, Burr and Carr, JJ., concurred.
Judgment reversed and proceedings remitted to the Special Term or trials for a rehearing.