Thimgan v. Mathews

Thimgan brought suit against defendants in error to quiet title to land. He was defeated and brings error. He claimed as survivor in a joint tenancy with one Elgin Peer, and defendants claimed as said Elgin Peer’s heirs. Thimgan also claimed part of the estate as heir of said Peer’s mother— one Esther Pheba Albertie Young, who Thimgan claimed was his common law wife.

There is nothing in the claim of common law marriage. They lived as the witnesses say “as husband and wife” but it is evident that this expression is used as a euphemism for sexual relation, and not in the sense of claiming to be…