Jenkins v. Jenkins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Alimony. Evidence. Husband and wife. Marriage. Witness. Verdict. Presumptions.. Before. Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Eulton superior court. September term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This, at bottom, is a controversy between two ladies over property. These litigants may be distinguished by the lady Theresa and the lady Josie. The former claims alimony out of property which Jenkins, the disputed husband, conveyed to the latter in April, 1887, by deed founded on love and affection. The marriage of *284Jenkins to Josie, in October, 1886, publicly, in Atlanta, Georgia, by license and a clergyman, in the presence of many witnesses, is clearly proved by the evidence, and indeed was an admitted fact in the pleadings. An alleged previous marriage by the same…
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