Turner v. Turner

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is a contest for letters of administration on the estate of Jones Turner, deceased, between his mother, the appellant, and his divorced wife, Myrtle Lucile Turner, appellee. The real question, however, and determinative of this litigation, is whether or not the appellee, having been divorced from her husband, had thereafter become his common-law wife, all happening shortly before his death.

The couple had a ceremonial marriage in July, 1946, and lived together for about seven months and in February, 1947, separated. Divorce proceedings were instituted by appellee and a…