Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1910 — MANY ILLEGALLY MARRIED. [ARTICLE]

MANY ILLEGALLY MARRIED.

Court Decision Affects Hew Yorkers Who Wed Under 1& More than 3,000 couples in New York believe themselves to be married, but they are living as hustands and wives without the legal right to do so. This condition was brought to light by a decision in the Appellato division of the Supreme Court by Justice Nathan Miller. The ruling held that even the written consent of the parents authorizing a boy and girl under the legal marriageable age to wed does not make the wedding legal. About 70,000 marriage licenses are issued each year at the city hall, and of this number nearly 2 per cent are obtained by persons under the legal age on the written consent of their parents or guardians, or an average oO $1,400 each year.