Tate v. Tate

Browning, President:

Plaintiff, Mary Jo Tate, a native of Lincoln County, West Virginia, while teaching in the state of Florida in 1958, met and married the defendant, Paul Tate. They lived together for approximately one year when she returned to Lincoln County and obtained a divorce on March 10, 1959. Shortly thereafter, on April 16, 1959, the parties were remarried in Norco, Louisiana, where they resided until May 14, 1960, when they moved to Nederland, Texas. The defendant apparently was a citizen of Texas and maintained a permanent mailing address at his parents’ home in Corpus Christi…