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80 Wash. 615

Cushman v. Cushman

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 27, 1914

Washington Supreme Court · decided 1914-07-27

, entered December 23, 1913, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action to annul a marriage, tried to the court.

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Reversed · Decided 1914-07-27

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2006

2 district · 12 state decisions

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Mount, J.

¶1(dissenting)—It seems clear to me that Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7150 (P. C. 329 § 1), fixes the ages at which persons are capable of contracting marriage. This section necessarily implies that persons under the ages therein mentioned are incapable of entering into a marriage contract. Section 7162 (P. C. 329 § 3) emphasizes this construction, for it says:

“When either party to a marriage shall be incapable of consenting thereto, for want of legal age . . . such marriage is voidable, but only at the suit of the party laboring under the disability . . .”

¶2These sections clearly modify the common law rule and make it plain that a marriage entered into by persons under these ,ages may be avoided. The trial court, therefore, was right in entering the judgment which was entered, and in my opinion the same should be affirmed. I therefore dissent.

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