Lufkin v. Lufkin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk April 13, 1901, by Mary A. Lufkin, to be appointed administratrix of the estate of Richard Lufkin, late of Chelsea, alleging the petitioner to be the widow of the intestate. On appeal to this court the case was tried before Loving, J., who submitted issues to a jury.
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Suffolk April 13, 1901, by Mary A. Lufkin, to be appointed administratrix of the estate of Richard Lufkin, late of Chelsea, alleging the petitioner to be the widow of the intestate. On appeal to this court the case was tried before Loving, J., who submitted issues to a jury. The jury answered the three following issues in the affirmative : “1. Was a due and legal ceremony of marriage performed on October 12, A. D. 1890, between the late Richard Lufkin and Mary A. Jakeman? 2. Did Mary A. Jakeman, on October 12,1890, enter into said…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The issue upon which this case turned was whether the petitioner was the lawful widow of the intestate upon whose estate she had asked for letters of administration. A marriage ceremony had been performed between them in the year 1890, when the deceased had another wife living; and the petitioner’s contention was that her marriage with the deceased had been made valid upon the death of his former wife in the year 1898 by virtue of the provisions of St. 1895, c. 427, as amended by St. 1896, c. 499.
A justice of this court submitted to a jury the issues whether there was a due legal ceremony of…
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