GIRL OF 16 WANTS FREEDOM.
Says She Married W. E. Morrison
Without Parent's Consent.
Annulment of a marriage is sought by a girl of 16, who has been wedded nearly a year in a suit filed yesterday in the circuit court. Leatha B. Morrison is the wife and, being under age, she sues William E. Morrison in the name of Mrs. Sadie R. Richards, her mother.
In her petition, Mrs. Morrison says she was married June 18, 1908. She says the consent of neither of her parents was secured nor even sought, and that they did not know of the wedding until after the ceremony had been performed. Morrison, who is 28 years of age, influenced her mind so that she married him, she says. Now she wants the marriage set aside, on the ground that it was illegally performed.
