Burns v. Stevens

Plaintiff complains that the defendant has represented to his employer and to societies of which he is a member and to others that she is his common-law wife, and that she has assumed his name as such. He alleges that such representation on her part is false; that his reputation is liable to be impaired thereby, and that by reason thereof he is liable to lose his position and to be refused recognition as a single man. He prays that defendant be enjoined from further repetition of such representations and from using his name as his wife, and that he “he decreed to be free from any matrimonial…