Reynolds v. Adams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of King and Queen county. Decree for complainant. Defendants appeal. This is á suit for the sale of real estate for partition under section 2564 of the Code as amended (4 Pollard’s Code of Virginia 1916). The bill was filed by the appellees, the first-named appellee an adult, claiming to be the widow, and. the infant appellee, claiming to be the only child and heir at law of one Arthur Reynolds, a deceased brother of the appellants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of King and Queen county. Decree for complainant. Defendants appeal. This is á suit for the sale of real estate for partition under section 2564 of the Code as amended (4 Pollard’s Code of Virginia 1916). The bill was filed by the appellees, the first-named appellee an adult, claiming to be the widow, and. the infant appellee, claiming to be the only child and heir at law of one Arthur Reynolds, a deceased brother of the appellants. Arthur Reynolds died intestate. The said widow, after his death, married again and is now Mrs.. Adams. The real estate,…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court.
The assignments of error raise the questions which will be considered and passed upon in their order as stated below.
1. Does the preponderance of the evidence in the cause establish that there was a valid marriage of Arthur Reynolds and his reputed wife, the adult appellee, under the statute law of New Jersey?
As said by this court in Womack v. Tankersley, 78 Va. 242:
[1, 2] “Marriage is a civil contract, and its existence; may be shown like that of any other fact. The production of the marriage…
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