Beck v. Beck

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, in Equity, rendered in a declaratory judgment proceeding, which decree declared, among other declarations, that appellee, to whom we will sometimes hereinafter refer as Mrs. Alton Smith Beck, was the common-law wife of Dr. James S. P. Beck, deceased, from August 9, 1966, until September 9, 1966, the day of Dr. Beck’s death.

The only question for our determination is the correctness of the declaration that Mrs. Alton Smith Beck was the common-law wife of Dr. Beck at the time of his death on…