Oates v. Oates

Lovins, President:

Ruth Oates complains of a decree made and entered by the Circuit Court of Mineral County, in a suit in which her husband, Edward H. Oates, is plaintiff, and she is defendant, and the litigants will be hereinafter so designated.

Plaintiff and defendant were married January 4, 1936, at which time he was approximately seventy-eight years of age and she thirty-three. The marriage was never consummated. Prior to the marriage plaintiff, a bachelor, lived alone on a farm near Keyser in Mineral County, and the defendant was engaged in teaching school on a part-time basis.

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