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Sanderson v. Sanderson
212 Va. 537
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212 Va. 537 (1972)

ALBERT F. SANDERSON
v.
RUTH E. SANDERSON.

Record No. 7645.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 17, 1972.

William B. Moore (Phillips, Kendrick, Gearheart & Aylor, on brief), for appellant.

Albert J. Ahern, Jr. (Howard, Stevens, Lynch, Cacheris, Cake & Howard, on brief), for appellee.

Present, All the Justices.

Misrepresentation as to prior marital status is not ground for annulment.

Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Arlington County. Hon. William L. Winston, judge presiding.

Per Curiam.

By this suit, Albert F. Sanderson seeks an annulment of his marriage to Ruth E. Sanderson. He alleges as the ground for annulment that Ruth E. Sanderson falsely represented before their marriage that she had been previously married and divorced only once, whereas in fact she had been married and divorced five times.

The trial court denied the annulment. To settle the question, we granted the husband an appeal.

In line with the weight of authority, see cases collected in Annot. 15 A.L.R. 3d 759 (1967), we hold that misrepresentation as to prior marital status is not ground for annulment.

Affirmed.

Case Details

Case Name: Sanderson v. Sanderson
Court Name: Supreme Court of Virginia
Date Published: Jan 17, 1972
Citation: 212 Va. 537
Docket Number: Record No. 7645
Court Abbreviation: Va.
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