Lemmons v. . Sigman

Civil action to recover of defendant, Register of Deeds of Davidson County, the penalty of two hundred dollars allowed by sections 2500 and 2503, Consolidated Statutes, for issuing a marriage license to one John W. Galloway and plaintiff's daughter, Alma Lemmons, without the consent of her parents and without reasonable inquiry as to her age, she being at the time under the age of eighteen.

Upon the question of reasonable inquiry, the only point of difference in the case, there was evidence on behalf of plaintiff tending to show that his daughter lived with him in Winston-Salem at the home of…