Taylor v. Garrett
Mississippi Supreme Court
Taylor v. Garrett, 101 Miss. 660 (Miss. 1911)
57 So. 658
Whiteield
Taylor v. Garrett
Opinion of the Court
We cannot concur in tbe view of tbe learned chancellor of tbe court below, whose view must have rested upon tbe idea that tbe evidence was not sufficient to establish the marriage. We think the evidence clearly shows a marriage.
Tbe above opinion is adopted as the opinion of the court, and, for tbe reasons therein indicated, tbe decree is reversed, and tbe cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded..
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Kate Taylor v. Willis Garrett
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- Syllabus
- Marriage. Sufficiency of evidence. In a case involving the validity of a second marriage, testimony of complainant and her son, that in 1878 her former husband was taken sick and carried to the county poorhouse at which time she left him; that she was afterwards informed that he had died; that she .took the household effects; that she had never heard of him since and had never doubted his death; that she again married in the year 1883; was sufficient, in the absence of any proof to the contrary to establish the validity of the second marriage.