TRIEBER, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).
The only question to be determined on the demurrer is whether a marriage contracted by a lunatic or insane person is wholly void, so that it may be attacked collaterally, or only voidable, and valid until set aside in a direct proceeding instituted for that purpose.
Marriage is now recognized by all the American as well as the English courts as a civil contract. Meister v. Moore,
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