Beacher v. Baecher

CARROLL, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the county judge’s court in Dade County vacating appointment of a (widow) administratrix upon upholding a challenge to the existence of a common law marriage.

The appellant Alice Louise Beacher and Leo Charles Beacher were married in 1940. He purchased a home in Dade County in which they resided until the time of his death. The wife filed suit for divorce in 1949, during the pendency of which the parties continued to reside in the home. After the wife had submitted proof before a special master, and while the cause was assumed by the parties to…