Furr v. Johnson.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by E. A. Eurr against W. Reece Johnson, heard by Judge M. H. Justice and a jury, at the May Term, 1905, of the Superior CQurt of Cabarrus. From a judgment for the defendant, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtConnor, J.
This is an action against the register of deeds to recover the statutory penalty for issuing, without plaintiff’s consent, a license for the marriage of his daughter who was under eighteen years of age and resided with him. The judge correctly charged that it was the duty of the register of deeds in issuing a marriage license “to make such inquiry for legal impediments to the marrige and as to the age of the parties as a prudent business man, acting in the most important affairs of life, would make, and to exercise his duties in this respect carefully and conscientiously, and not as a mere…
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