Holman v. Holman

In this suit Teter Holman, the plaintiff in error, claims to have contracted a valid common-law marriage with Boyd Holman, and to have been his lawful wife, under the common-law marriage, when the latter died in 1924. The validity of such alleged common-law marriage was assailed in the trial court by Turner Holman, the defendant in error, on the ground that Teter had a husband, to wit, Wiley Thompson, when said common-law marriage was undertaken by her and Boyd Holman.

The case was tried with the aid of a jury. The jury rendered a verdict upon special issues, in which they found that Wiley had…