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Bribe & Groom. In Detroit, Mrs. Theres W. Gregg, 64, asked a court to annul her marriage to Harold Gregg, 61, whom she left four days after the ceremony, claimed Gregg proposed matrimony to her because "his father offered him a new car and some money if he would get married...
Unfair Advantage. In Springfield, Ill., Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that he was so "emotionally upset" by the divorce from his first wife that he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried...
...tendency of the Supreme Court to legislate as well as to annul laws because of alleged violation of the Constitution has in the past caused Congress to reverse decisions of that court many times. No wonder Jefferson predicted that we will be governed by a judicial oligarchy with the threat of impeachment a mere scarecrow...
...Hasty Heart. In Long Beach, Calif., Harriett Isabell Barfoot. 83, filed suit to annul her nine-day marriage to Thomas Barfoot, 83. told the court that her husband proved to be "what is commonly known as a woman chaser...
...practice, 20-54 is peacefully implemented not in the courts but in the local marriage-license bureaus. A test case arose in 1953, however, in which a white woman petitioned the courts in Portsmouth, Va. to annul her marriage to her Chinese sailor husband of 15 months...