Nixon v. Brown

This was an action of trespass brought by Brown against Nixon, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff’s wife. Plea, not guilty. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff below. - •

■It appears by a bill of exceptions, that the plaintiff below offered to prove his marriage by a witness who was-present at the ceremony, which was performed by a justice of the peace in Guilford county, North-Carolina, and to prove also, by the same witness, that the justice was in the -habit of solemnizing marriages in that county, but without offering to prove that, by the laws of North-Carolina, a justice was…