Colored Knights of Pythias v. Tucker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom; the circuit court of Madison county Eon. David M. Miller, Judge. The appellee, Mrs. Tucker, was plaintiff, and the Colored Knights of Pythias, appellant, was defendant in the court below. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom; the circuit court of Madison county Eon. David M. Miller, Judge. The appellee, Mrs. Tucker, was plaintiff, and the Colored Knights of Pythias, appellant, was defendant in the court below. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts, — the instruction considered by the court being in the following words: “No. 3. The court further instructs that, even though you believe from the evidence that Pinkie Tucker was married to Charley Diamond before she married Jake Tucker you are bound to presume a divorce from said…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
The record shows that Pinkie Townes married Charley Diamond in Madison county on the 18th day of October 1894, and that Charley Diamond is still living in the county where this marriage was celebrated. It also shows that about ten years afterwards — that is to say, on the 24th day of December, 1904 —Pinkie Townes, then going under the name of Pinkie Diamond, married lake Tucker, and this second marriage also took place in Madison county. It is undisputed that Pinkie Diamond, who married Jalee Tucker in 1904, and Pinkie Townes, who married Charley Diamond in 1894, is one and the same person.…
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