Agent v. . Willis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Actiobt, for penalty of $200, under section 1816 of The Code, instituted by the plaintiff against the defendant, Register of Deeds of Craven County, for issuing without reasonable inquiry a marriage .license for the marriage of Frank Parsons and Lizzie Agent, the said Lizzie Agent being under tbe age of eighteen years, without the written consent of her father, the plaintiff,- with whom she resided at the time, heard upon appeal from the Justice’s Court before…
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Civil Actiobt, for penalty of $200, under section 1816 of The Code, instituted by the plaintiff against the defendant, Register of Deeds of Craven County, for issuing without reasonable inquiry a marriage .license for the marriage of Frank Parsons and Lizzie Agent, the said Lizzie Agent being under tbe age of eighteen years, without the written consent of her father, the plaintiff,- with whom she resided at the time, heard upon appeal from the Justice’s Court before Nor-wood, J., at Fall Term, 1898, of Craven Superior Court. The case turned upon the issue whether the license had been issued…
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This action was commenced in the court of a Justice of the Peace for the recovery of the penalty imposed by section 1816 of The Code, for the issuing by defendant as Register of Deeds of Craven County, of a license for the marriage of the plaintiff’s daughter, who was under eighteen years of age, the consent required by section 1814 of The Code not having been delivered to the defendant. On the trial in the Superior Court the defendant offered no evidence and admitted that that of the plaintiff was true. The substance of the evidence of the plaintiff was that he had lived in New Bern for…
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