Clayton v. Canida

HALL, Chief Justice.

Rass R. Canida, who obtained a divorce in Arizona in 1943 from his wife, Pinkie L. Canida, now deceased, brought this suit claiming all of her personal property, one-half of her oil royalties and real estate, and a homestead interest in the other one-half of her oil and real estate on the theory that the Arizona divorce was not valid, but, that if it was valid, he had again become the husband of Pinkie L. Canida by virtue of a common-law marriage. Defendants were brothers, sisters, and other heirs of the deceased. Deceased left no children. The jury found that plaintiff…