Campbell v. Beck

This was a suit against ^appellant as county cleric, to recover the penalty for issuing a license for the marriage of the minor daughter of appellee without his consent. It appears from the evidence of the deputy cleric, who issued the license, that the names of the parties as written by him in the license, were subsequently changed by the justice of the peace, who returned the license with his certificate that he had joined the parties in marriage. He testified that he issued the license for the marriage of Ephraim Boaz and Zenia Beclc, and that when it was returned it had been changed so as…