Williams v. . Hodges
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Shepherd, /., at Spring Term, 1888, of LeNOLR Superior Court. This action was brought to recover the penalty prescribed by The Code, § 1816. It was agreed by the parties that the Court should try the facts as well as the law, and a jury trial being waived, the Court found the following facts: 1. That the plaintiff was a resident of Duplin County, and lived twenty-five miles from Kinston, Lenoir County, of which county the defendant was the Register…
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Civil ACTION, tried before Shepherd, /., at Spring Term, 1888, of LeNOLR Superior Court. This action was brought to recover the penalty prescribed by The Code, § 1816. It was agreed by the parties that the Court should try the facts as well as the law, and a jury trial being waived, the Court found the following facts: 1. That the plaintiff was a resident of Duplin County, and lived twenty-five miles from Kinston, Lenoir County, of which county the defendant was the Register of Deeds; that plaintiff had a daughter named Ann, who was under the age of eighteen, and who was living with her…
1Opinion of the Court
Merrimon, J.,
(after stating the case.) It appears that the defendant was the Register of Deeds of the County of Lenoir, on the 8th day of March, 1887, and the question presented by the record for our dcision is, did iappear probable, upon reasonable inquiry made by him at the time he issued the license mentioned on that day for the marriage of the female Ann Williams therein named and Chauncy Smith, that she was of the age of 18 years?
The sections of the statute (The Code, §§1814-1816) pertaining to and regulating marriage, are in pari materia, and must be construed together in the respects…
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