Griffin v. Beddow

MOREMEN, Justice.

The opinion upon the first appeal of this case appears in 257 S.W.2d 45. There it was held, under an allegation of facts accepted as being true upon demurrer,- that the marriage of an idiot or a lunatic was so repugnant to the fundamental public policy of this state that the general rule — the validity of a marriage contract is governed by the lex loci contráctus and celebrationis— was not applicable. Upon return to the circuit court the case was tried on the sole issue of whether Robert L. Beddow was a lunatic on January 30, 1950, when a marriage ceremony was performed…